Notts Free Press, 19th July 1918
HAWKSLEY H.
Harry Hawksley
Lance Corporal S/22249
1st/4th Bn., Seaforth Highlanders
Notts Free Press, 19th July 1918
Harry Hawksley died on Thursday 11th July 1918, Age 21, and was buried in the Churchyard of St Mary Magdalene, Sutton-in-Ashfield.
He was born c1897 at East Kirkby, to parents John and Elizabeth Hawksley. John Hawksley was a Bricklayers Labourer, who married Elizabeth Blythe at St Wilfrid's Church, Kirkby in March 1886. At the time of the 1901 census the family were living at Vernon Road, Kirkby, but by the time of Harry's death they resided at 1 New Cross Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield.
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Notts Free Press, 19th July 1918 |
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
Seaforth HIghlanders (The Duke of
Albany's Ross-shire Buffs)’
HAWKSLEY Harry. Born Kerby, Notts, enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. Depot, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) Private S/22249, Died, at Home, 11th July 1918.
Researched by Heather Faulkes - gravestone photograph taken April 2003 by Heather Faulkes
