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• Name HAWKES
• Initials RW
• First name ROBERT WILSON
• Place of birth Wallacetown
• Country New Zealand
• Last residence Wallacetown, New Zealand
• Family Son of James and Emma Hawkes, of Wallacetown, Southland, New Zealand.
• Profession Farmer
• Extra info Commemorated in Official History of the Otago Regiment, page 403

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 11 June 1915
• Service number 8/2941
• Rank Serjeant
• Medals M M, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. Otago Regiment
• Other data related to military career Embarked: 9 October 1915, Wellington

Death

• Wounded Wounded in action 15 December 1917
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds penetrating chest and neck in n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 20 December 1917
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVII - C - 6

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