Reginald Kenneth (Hawkie) HAWKE

HAWKE, Reginald Kenneth

Service Number: SX7175
Enlisted: 29 June 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion
Born: Kapunda, South Australia, 5 December 1913
Home Town: Mount Pleasant, Barossa, South Australia
Schooling: Kapunda High School
Occupation: Barber
Died: Natural causes, Adelaide, South Australia, 13 July 1997, aged 83 years
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Kapunda District WW2 Honour Roll, Mount Pleasant District WW2 Honour Roll
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World War 2 Service

29 Jun 1940: Enlisted Private, SX7175, Adelaide, South Australia
29 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX7175
30 Jun 1940: Involvement Private, SX7175
9 Mar 1942: Imprisoned Java
6 Dec 1945: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, SX7175, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion

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Biography contributed by John Hawke

Cremated and ashes scattered in Davidson Reserve, adjacent to his childhood home in Kapunda, on 30th December 2015 by his son John and Grandson Bill