Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookfor his House at Winchester, and ran with his troop in the Marathon Race in June, 1908, when they won the Harkness Shield. "An excellent report which reflects great credit on Lieut. Hawkins, the Signalling Officer," was the remark of the G.O.C., Ambala Cavalry Brigade, on Individual Tests, 31 March, 1913. [Illustration: =Lionel Hope Hawkins.=] =HAWKINS, WILLIAM DAVID=, Leading Seaman, 195918, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =HAWKINS, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private, No. 1901, 8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of James Hawkins, of 2, Cumberland Street, Staines, by his wife, Maria, dau. of William May; was an old Volunteer; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, was wounded at Hill 60, and died in King George's Hospital, London, 28 June 1915. He _m._ at Egham, Surrey, Elizabeth, dau. of (--) May, and had four children: Frederick, _b._ 23 Oct. 1899; William, _b._ 25 Sept. 1900; Alfred, _b._ 9 Dec. 1902; and Bessie, _b._ 22 March, 1901. [Illustration: =William George Hawkins.=] =HAWKRIDGE, JOHN=, Rifleman, No. 2358 C Coy. 1/17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Robert Hawkridge, formerly of the ... Regt.; _b._ 21 Aug. 18--; and was in the Special Reserve; joined the Poplar and Stepney Rifles, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France, and was killed in action at Loos, 26 Sept. 1915. Capt. E. A. B. Chandler wrote to his widow: "Our Battn. did its share in the great advance and your husband too did his part in the very best way, and it grieves me deeply to tell you that he fell while in the front line.... The life and soul of his platoon, always full of fun, 'Tosh,' as he was called, is very much missed. Fearless, too, he was, and I had often occasion to admire his coolness in dangerous positions. As far as I know he lies near the chalk pit at Loos." He _m._ at St. Mark's, Victoria Park, E., Daisy Florence (48, Mandeville Street, Clapton Park, E.), dau. of (--), and had a dau., Florence Lilian, _b._ 10 Jan. 1915. [Illustration: =John Hawkridge.=] =HAWORTH, BENJAMIN=, Signaller, No. 131, B Coy., 3rd Battn. 1st Division, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of Thomas Haworth, of 29, Bridge Street, Freetown, Bury, Lancashire, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of Thomas Ashworth, of Rossendale, Lancashire; _b._ Freetown, Bury, Lancashire, 21 Aug. 1891; educ. there; emigrated to Australia early in 1913, and settled at Morisset, N.S.W.; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, with his brother John Edward; left for Egypt on the Euripides, 20 Oct.; went to the Dardanelles, 29 Mar. 1915, and died of wounds received in action there, 9 Aug. 1915; _unm._ Buried at sea. His brothers, John Edward, now Sergt., No. 135, 3rd Battn. Australian Expeditionary Force, and Corpl. James Arthur Haworth, Machine Gun Section, 13th Battn. (5th Royal Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, are now (1916) on active service. =HAWORTH, FREDERICK=, Corpl No. 3210, 10th Battn. (Service) Rifle Brigade, _s._ of Lister Haworth, of 10, Swan Street, Blackburn, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of John Macmillan, of Ayr; _b._ 2 June, 1879; educ. Christ Church School there; was a weaver; joined the 5th (Blackburn) Lancashire Artillery Volunteers in 1898, and was seventeen years with them (Medal) and was a Corpl.; volunteered for Foreign Service on the outbreak of war, 7 Sept. 1914. and died at the Isolation Hospital, Aldershot, 31 Mar. 1915, of spotted fever], contracted while training there. He _m._ at Christ Church, 1 Nov. 1902, Mary Alice (16 Swan Street, Blackburn), dau. of Richard Lang, and left two children: Maggie, _b._ 22 March, 1904; and Annie, _b._ 2 Feb. 1906. [Illustration: =Frederick Haworth.=] =HAYDEN, HARRY=, Rifleman, No. 2083, C Coy., 1st Battn. Rifle Brigade, only _s._ of Arthur Hayden, of Haddiscoe, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Signalman for 35 years on the Great Eastern Railway, by his wife, Sybilla Smythe, dau. of William Edward Snare, of Brandon, Suffolk; _b._ Weeting, co. Norfolk, 19 Jan. 1887; educ. Somerleyton, Suffolk; enlisted at Winchester, 6 May, 1907; served in Ireland 1907-08; India, Oct. 1908-Oct. 1914; and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 8 Nov. 1914-15 March, 1915; was wounded in action at Neuve Chapelle, on the latter date, and died in No. 2 British Red Cross Hospital at Rouen on the 17th; _unm._ Buried in Rouen Cemetery. He was present as a special messenger at the Delhi Durbar, 1911. =HAYDON, LEONARD FLAXMAN LEE=, Private, No. 2446. 5th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of the late Flaxman Haydon, of Blomfield House, London Wall, Chartered Accountant, by his wife, Anne Juliana (760, Stanlake Road, Shepherd's Bush), dau. of the late Henry Lee Hogg, of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, Surgeon; _b._ Coleridge House, Lady Margaret Road, Kentish Town, 6 Aug. 1886; educ. Lewes Grammar School; was a Clerk in Barclays Bank, Lewes; enlisted, Sept. 1914; went to France, 18 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Richbourg L'Avoué, 9 May, 1915; _unm._ Major G. H. Courthope wrote: "He and his comrades joined with the utmost gallantry in the assault on the German lines at Richbourg L'Avoué. His dead body was found not far from a road known as the cinder track, by search parties of the Lahore Division. He and hundreds of others were buried close to the Rue du Bois, and I am informed that all the graves are carefully marked." [Illustration: =Leonard F. L. Haydon.=] =HAYERS, ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10686), 216178, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =HAYES, ERNEST DE LANNOY=, Major, 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd _s._ of Vice-Admiral John Montagu Hayes, C.B., by his wife, Julia, dau. of Richard Atkinson Coward; _b._ Southsea, co. Hants, 8 July, 1869; educ. Stubbington, near Fareham; Westward Ho!, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted to the Cameronians, 3 May, 1890, promoted Lieut., 5 April, 1893, Capt., 22 Dec. 1897, Brevet Major, 22 Aug. 1902, and Major, 24 June, 1908; served (1) in the South African War, 1899-1902; took part in the Relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; the operations of 17-24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; operations of 5-7 Nov. 1900, and action at Vaal Krantz; operations on Tugela Heights (14-27 Feb. 1900), and action at Pieters Hill; operations in Natal, March to June, 1900; including action at Laings Nek (6-9 June); operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900; operations in the Transvaal 30 Nov. 1900 to Aug. 1901, and Nov. 1901 to 31 May, 1902, and on the Zululand frontier of Natal, Sept. and Oct. 1901 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1902], Brevet Major; Queen's medal with four clasps and King's Medal with two clasps); and (2) with Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 4 Nov. 1914 to 10 March, 1915, on which day he was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, wh |