Herbert Edwin HAWKESWORTH

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HAWKESWORTH, Herbert Edwin

Service Number:	252
Enlisted:	19 August 1914, Geelong, Vic.
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd Light Trench Mortar Battery
Born:	Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 19 May 1881
Home Town:	Geelong, Greater Geelong, Victoria
Schooling:	Geelong College, Ballarat School of Mines
Occupation:	Metallurgist Assayer
Died:	Illness - Infulenza, Military Hospital, Devonport, England, United Kingdom, 27 October 1918, aged 37 years
Cemetery:	Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery, Devon, England, Church C, 4779
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Geelong College WW1 Roll of Honour, Newtown All Saints Church Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

19 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 252, 8th Infantry Battalion, Geelong, Vic.
19 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 252, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
19 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 252, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Melbourne
27 Oct 1918:	Involvement Lance Corporal, 252, 2nd Light Trench Mortar Battery, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 252 awm_unit: 2nd Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-10-27

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Edwin and Mary HAWKESWORTH, Ryan's Street, Marnock Vale, Geelong, Victoria

EASE AFTER WAR PORT AFTER STORMY SEAS DOES GREATLY PLEASE

Enlisted 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.

Private H. E. Hawkesworth, of the Victorian Contingent, reported wounded, was shot in the leg, and is (says "The Age") progressing rapidly. He was educated at the Geelong College, and afterwards studied at the Gordon Technical College and Ballarat School of Mines for special work in the mines. He was employed on one of the Broken
Hill mines when the war broke out.

HAWKESWORTH.- At the Military Hospital, Devonport, England, on the 27th October, L.-Cpl. H. E. Hawkesworth, 2nd Light Trench Mortar Battery, beloved son of E. and M. E. Hawkeworth, Marnockvale, Geelong.
An Anzac.

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