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Herbert Edwin HAWKESWORTH

Regimental number252
Place of birthGeelong Vic
SchoolGeelong College and School of Mines, Ballarat, Victoria
Other trainingChemistry
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationMetallurgist assayer
Address127 Fyans Street, Geelong, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation33
Next of kinEdwin Hawkesworth, 127 Fyans Street, Geelong, Victoria
Enlistment date19 August 1914
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name8th Battalion, B Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/25/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Transport A24 Benalla on 19 October 1914
Rank from Nominal RollLance Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll2nd Trench Mortar Battery
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularEnlisted 16th August, 1814 at Geelong. Left with the 1st Division, 1914 and landed at Gallipoli on 25th April, 1915. Went through the War and died at the Military Hospital, Devenport of Influenza a few days before the armistice. We was woulded at Cape Helles and afterwards at Broodscinde, Passchendaele, France.
FateDied of disease 27 October 1918
Place of death or woundingDevonport
Age at death37
Place of burialEfford Cemetery (Church C, 4779), Plymouth, Devonshire
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
20
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Edwin and Mary HAWKESWORTH, Ryan's Street, Marnock Vale, Geelong, Victoria

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