Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booke Marines' mess deck for any gear that would float. At a time when things became critical, this officer penetrated as far aft as the ward room, using the after hatch in the port battery and aided solely by the light from a small electric torch. His passage was greatly impeded by strung hammocks. His conduct was extremely plucky, for he continued to work there collecting chairs, etc., though it was apparent to all that the ship might capsize at any moment without warning. To add to this, the water was at a dangerous level on the starboard side of the same deck." Hathorn had passed for his Captaincy while in the West Indian Station. His yr. brother, 2nd Lieut. N. McD. Hathorn, was killed in action, 14 July, 1915 (see following notice). [Illustration: =George Hugh Vans Hathorn.=] =HATHORN, NOEL McDOUALL=, 2nd Lieut., 76th Punjabis, Indian Army, 2nd _s._ of the late Charles Hugh Vans Hathorn, of Seconce Tea Estate, Assam, by his wife, Emily Rose (5, Ravenlea Road, Folkestone), dau. of the late Benjamin Bensley, and grandson of the late Admiral George Hathorn, R.N.; _b._ Seconce, 26 Dec. 1891; educ. at Pretoria House, Folkestone, Dover College, and Wye Agricultural College; went to Ceylon tea planting in 1911; volunteered for service on the outbreak of war; joined the Ceylon Contingent, and was sent to Egypt. While there he was offered a commission in the Indian Army, and was gazetted to the 76th Punjabis, then at Suez, Jan. 1915. From Suez he was sent to the Persian Gulf, and was killed in action, being shot through the forehead, near Nasar-i-yeh, Mesopotamia, 14 July, 1915; _unm._ His colonel wrote to his mother as follows: "Your son was shot when most gallantly leading his men, much ahead of them, and in so doing had to swim a creek under fire. This was at night, and such fine action requires not only great nerve and determination, but splendid bravery in addition, and your boy has, I am gratified to learn, been recommended by the General for posthumous honour. The regt., of which I am proud, is proud of your son, and feels honoured that his name was on our rolls." While at Wye College he won the champion light-weight boxing cup for one year, and in Ceylon was considered one of the leading sportsmen of his district. He won the quarter-mile race in record time for that country, and was one of the football fifteen for his province. His elder brother, Lieut. G. H. V. Hathorn, R.M.L.I., was lost in the Formidable, 1 Jan. 1915 (see preceding notice). [Illustration: =Noel McDouall Hathorn.=] =HATTERSLEY, HENRY WILLIAM=, Ordinary Seaman, S.S. 4739, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =HATTON, LEONARD NELVINGTON=, P.O., 198556, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =HAVERY, RALPH SAINT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2892), S.S. 100180, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =HAWKES, JOHN CORNOCK=, Lieut., R.A.M.C., attd. 8th (Service) Battn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd _s._ of William Hawkes, of Bank House, Castletown, Berehaven, co. Cork, Manager, Munster and Leinster Bank, by his wife, Martha Elizabeth, eldest dau. of William Gillman; _b._ Castletown aforesaid, 3 March, 1885; educ. Cork Grammar School and Edinburgh University, and qualified as L.R.C.P., and S.Ed., and L.R.F.P.S. Glas. in 1910, and then went as a Ship's Surgeon to West Africa, and afterwards to Canada. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and was gazetted Lieut., Royal Army Medical Corps, 6 Dec. 1914, and went to the Front the following May. He was killed in action at Hooge, 31 July, 1915, by a shell. His Col. wrote: "Your gallant son was beloved by officers and men for his genial pleasant manner and his genuine Irish wit, and his devotion to the wounded. He was a splendid professional man, and the battn. has suffered a severe loss by his death," and Col. Thompson, writing on behalf of Surgeon-Gen. Porter, Director of Medical Service: "He was killed instantaneously by a shell, when advancing with his regt. near Hooge. They were about to take part in an assault on some trenches previously lost by another brigade. He bore the reputation of being a very gallant man, and one devoted to the care and succour of the wounded. He has now joined our band of heroes of the R.A.M.C., and his name will live on our annals and he himself in our memories as one who has conferred honour on the corps." [Illustration: =John Cornock Hawkes.=] =HAWKES, RUEBEN ERNEST=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9297), 203656 (Chatham), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =HAWKINS, BENJAMIN=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111196, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =HAWKINS, CHARLES FRANCIS=, Major, 46th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, only _s._ of the Rev. William Webster Hawkins, of Acomb, York, formerly, British Chaplain at Foochow, China, by his wife, Kate, dau. of Philip Leyburn, of London; _b._ Amoy, China, 16 Jan. 1880; educ. Haileybury; joined the Royal Artillery from the Militia, 17 March, 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 3 April, 1901, Captain 20 March, 1909 and Major 30 Oct. 1914; served (1) in the South African War, 1901-2; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, March, and in the Transvaal, April-May, 1902 (Queen's Medal with four clasps); and (2) with the 1st Division Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Aug. 1914-25 April, 1915, and was killed in action on the latter date in France; _unm._ [Illustration: =Charles Francis Hawkins.=] =HAWKINS, CHARLES VINCENT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7332), S.S. 10225, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =HAWKINS, FREDERICK ROBERT=, No. 5761, B Coy., 2nd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of James Hawkins, of 2, Cumberland Street, Staines, by his wife, Maria, dau. of William May; _b._ Egham Hythe, co. Surrey, 22 June, 1881; enlisted Aug. 1897; served through the South African war (Queen's medal with five bars and King's medal with two bars), 1899-1902, and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action, 4 June, 1915; _unm._ His eldest brother, William George, was killed in action (see following notice), and two other brothers are now (1916) on active service. =HAWKINS, GEORGE AUGUSTUS=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19106, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =HAWKINS, HAROLD GEORGE=, 2nd Lieut., 11th (Service) Battn. Middlesex Regt., eldest _s._ of Francis Henry Hawkins, LL.B., Solicitor; Foreign Secretary, London Missionary Society, by his wife, Frances Lydia, dau. of George Dugall, of Birmingham; _b._ Wrexham, co. Denbigh, 10 Nov. 1890; educ. Colet House, Rhyl; Mill Hill School, London (to which he obtained an open entrance scholarship in 1904), and Hertford College, Oxford (where he obtained Open Classical Scholarship and took the Honours School in Classics, July, 1914); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1 |