Francis North HAWKEN

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Service Number:	100
Enlisted:	22 December 1916, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	6th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Coy
Born:	Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia, 1881
Home Town:	Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Locomotive Driver
Died:	Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 1949, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Goulburn District Railway Employees Great War Honour Roll

22 Dec 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 100, Railway Unit (AIF), Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
16 Jan 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, Railway Unit (AIF), Prior to embarking
7 Feb 1917:	Involvement Corporal, 100, Railway Unit (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
7 Feb 1917:	Embarked Corporal, 100, Railway Unit (AIF), HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney
25 Mar 1918:	Imprisoned Captured at Beauloncourt
22 Jun 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 100, 6th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Coy, Discharged at the 2nd Military District

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Son of Joseph Hawken and Caroline Rebecca Hawken of Lithgow, NSW

Husband of Alice Maud Hawken nee Blackburn of Crown Street West, Wollongong, NSW. Francis and Alice married in Sydney during 1906c

Commenced return to Australia 31 March 1919 aboard HT Khyber disembarking on 14 May 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal