HEWKLEY, Francis Paget
| Service Number: | 146 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 August 1914, Blackboy Hill, WA |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 4th Divisional Signal Company |
| Born: | Stoke, Newington, London, England, March 1894 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Merchant Taylors School, England |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
| Died: | Died of Wounds, Belgium, 26 September 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Plot XXIII, Row A, Grave 11A |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Melbourne Bank of Australasia Roll of Honour WW1 |
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Francis Paget HEWKLEY was born in March, 1894 in Stoke, Newington, London, England
His parents were Dr. Frank HEWKLEY & Dorothy BREWIS who married in England in 1889
He left England and arrived in Australia in June 1912 & later enlisted on the 25th August, 1914 as a Sapper with the 1st Divisional Signals Company which embarked from Melbourne on 20th October 1914 on the ship HMAT Karroo
He was transferred to the 4th Divisional Signal Company on 9th March, 1916 and promoted through the ranks to Sergeant - he served at Gallipoli, Egypt, Belgium & France
Francis died of wounds on 26th September, 1917 due to shell wounds to his shoulder & a fractured skull - he is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery & and his name is memorialised on his parents headstone in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemetery in England & the Australian War Memorial
Awards: He was awarded the Military Medal on 9th October, 1916 for gallantry in mending lines under fire at Pozieres on 3rd to 5th September, 1916
(London Gazette, 9th December, 1916)
Medals: Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal & Victory Medal
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Daily News (Perth, WA) 3rd November, 1917 page 5
CALLED TO HIGHER SERVICE
Sergeant Francis Paget Hewkley, 4th Signalling Company, A.I.F., Scoutmaster, Troop No 26, Cottesloe
Died of wounds received in France
The Boy Scout movement in general and the Western Australian section in particular, has in Francis Paget Hewkley, lost one of the very best.
He was held in the highest esteem by the boys of No. 26 Troop, among whom the example he set was that of a true Scout, which means a true gentleman, and comrades who were with him in Egypt, Gallipoli & France, write of him as having been the cheeriest of soldiers, always fit and willing for duty and on the lookout to do a kindly act: in fact, living up to the Scout law
Scoutmaster F Paget Hewkley loved Scout work and his enthusiastic support will be missed in Western Australia, but he will always be remembered as one who carried out in his own life the Scout law, which he found so much pleasure in inducing others to obey.
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