Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ALFRED HAWKINS 12/1012. Born Hull in 1882, Alfred was the third of five children to Henry and Irene Hawkins of 4 Alexander Terrace, Barnsley Street, Hull. A Dock Labourer by trade, he enlisted at City Hall on 6th October 1914, joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. He has a somewhat chequered disciplinary record involving a couple of fines, one for being found drunk in Port Said when the Pals were serving in Egypt. He was killed in action on 5th August 1916. The battalion had entered new positions, deemed safer than those they had left behind on the Somme, but they trenches were shallow and exposed and the ‘attrition’ soon took it toll as one by one men were either buried or carried from the line. Alfred Hawkins is buried in St.Vaast Post Military Cemetery; he was 34 years old.
The address here is where Alfred Hawkins boarded in 1911.
His death was reported in the Hull Daily Mail, on 25/08/1916. *
