BORN HULL 1892. SON OF GEORGE WARD HAWKINS & MARGARET HAWKINS, OF 104 BEAN STREET, HULL AND 9, IRELAND TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE FORMERLY RESIDED AT 9. IRELAND TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET.
HE WAS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED BY A BOMB, AT INSTRUCTION SCHOOL, ON 2ND AUGUST 1917. HE WAS 25. BEFORE ENLISTING HE WORKED AT MESSRS SANDERSON’S PAINT WORKS, ROPERY STREET, HULL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 13TH AUGUST 1917 WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE IS BURIED AT ASSEVILLERS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “GOD BE WITH YOU TILL WE MEET AGAIN”
NB: A/B JOE HAWKINS -, 9 IRELAND TER, WALCOTT ST; WILLIAM HAWKINS , RE’S – 11 SELBY ST;
First name:
ALFRED
Military Number:
200066
Rank:
Sergeant
Date Died
02/08/1917
Place died:
ASSEVILLERS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, SOMME, FRANCE
Age:
25
104 , BEAN STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
