HAWKE, Arthur Ernest
| Service Number: | 5748 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 January 1916, Enlisted at Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Kent Town, South Australia, 17 August 1896 |
| Home Town: | Torrensville, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Woodville, South Australia, 21 September 1970, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Dudley Park Cemetery, South Australia TAK area, Row 10, Grave 0052. Interred on 23 September 1970 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 5748, Tunnelling Companies, Enlisted at Adelaide, SA | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 5748, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 5748, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 21 Nov 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), From Tunnelling Companies | |
| 14 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 5748, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), Discharged at the 4th Military District |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Charles Hawke and Sarah Porter Hawke nee Robinson of Northcote Street, Torrensville, NSW.
Brother of Sarah Myrtle Hawke, William Charles Hawke, Mary Beatrice Hawke, Henry Arnold Hawke, Janet Dorothy Hawke, Alice Phillippia Hawke and Samuel Stephen Hawke who was killed in action at Pozieres on 5 August 1916 while serving with the 27th Battalion and has no known grave. His name appears on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
Commenced return to Australia on 19 June 1919 aboard HT Miliades disembarking on 5 August 1919 in Melbourne for onward travel to Adelaide
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Arthur married Nora Honour Beatty in the Stow Memorial Church, Adelaide, SA on 8 October 1927
At the time of his death he was living the Croydon West area, SA