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Edward William Hawkins

In memory of:

Corporal Edward William Hawkins

July 10, 1917

Military Service


Service Number:

7809

Age:

34

Force:

Army

Unit:

Northamptonshire Regiment

Division:

C Coy. 1st Bn.

Additional Information


Son of Mrs. Mary Ann Hawkins, of Kingsthorpe, Northampton; husband of Edith Grace Hawkins, of Northampton.

Commemorated on Page 577 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

NIEUPORT MEMORIAL (Nieuwpoort)
Belgium

Grave Reference:

N/A

Location:

Nieuport (now Nieuwpoort) is a town in the Province of West Flanders on the south-west side of the River Yser, 3 kilometres from the sea. The Nieuport Memorial is on a site where the road to Lombardsijde joins the road from Nieuport dock. It commemorates over 500 British officers and men who fell in operations of 1914 and 1917 on the Belgian coast and whose graves are not known. The Memorial takes the form of a pylon of Euville stone, 8 metres high, surrounded by a bronze band on which are cast the names of the casualties commemorated. It stands on a triangular paved platform, and at each corner of the triangle is the recumbent figure of a lion facing outwards.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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