Detail victim

Name
Initials
Vorname
Place of birth Barberton
Land Mpumalanga, South Africa
Family Son of Harry Caesar Hawkins and Kate Huderson, Box 45, Middleburg, Transvaal
Extra info ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918

Service number 2/746
Rank Second Lieutenant
Regiment and unit 121st Brigade Royal Field Artillery "B" Bty.
Other data related to military career To France 19 July 1917; Embarked on 7 December 1914
MC - LG Sup 9 January 1918 - "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty as Forward Observing Officer for his brigade. He reorganised a party that had been broken up by shell fire, and led it forward through a heavy barrage with the greatest gallantry, afterwards accompanying the infantry during the advance and sending back valuable information from the firing line until the end of the attack. On another occasion he went out under an intense hostile bombardment to assist the dress and remove the wounded of a party of infantry, twelve of whom had been knocked out by one shell. But for this gallant action, carried out at great personal risk, the wounded would have been left on the ground."