HAWKESWORTH, Herbert Edwin
| Service Number: | 252 |
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| 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. | |
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| 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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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Edwin and Mary HAWKESWORTH, 127 West Fyans Street Newtown, Victoria
EASE AFTER WAR PORT AFTER STORMY SEAS DOES GREATLY PLEASE
Son of Edwin and Mary Hawksworth of 127 West Fyans Street Newtown, Edwin was 33 years of age and single when he enlisted on 19 August 1914, just 15 days after England declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914.
Herbert recorded his occupation as a Metallurgist Assayer at the time of enlistment. He was educated at Geelong College and later at Gordon Technical College Geelong and Ballarat School of Mines. Herbert was believed to working at one of the Broken Hill mines when war was declared but enlisted in Geelong.
Assigned to the 8th Battalion, he embarked from Melbourne on 19 October 1914 on HMAT Benalla. Herbert was with the 1st landing at Gallipoli on Anzac Day 25 April 1915 but was evacuated on 8 May 1915 to Malta with a gun shot wound to the left knee. Later that month transferred to Alexandria Egypt for recuperation before returning to Malta for return to duty in Gallipoli on 22 June 1915.
Herbert suffered from diarrhoea on 2 September 1915 and was again evacuated to Malta to St John’s Hospital and St Peter’s Hospital diagnosed with Gastro enteritis, where he remained till 29 December 1916. Herbert was then transferred to Tel El Kabir in Egypt to rejoin his 8th Battalion.
Sent then to France in March 1916, Herbert was again wounded, received a gun shot wound to the right thigh on October 1917 whist serving in Belgium and evacuated to England to hospitals in London, Weymouth and Dartford. Back in France in February 1918, Herbert suffered from a septic 1st finger on his right hand and evacuated once again to England.
His records show in September 1918, that Herbert was to be returned to Australia however he came down with influenza and on 20 October 1918, was admitted to Ford House Section, 4th Southern General Hospital in Devonport, Plymouth.
Sadly, Herbert died on 27 October 1918 of influenza (Spanish Flu) 15 days prior to the Armistice adding a synergy to Herbert’s military service in that he enlisted exactly 15 days after the Declaration of War.
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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