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Lieutenant Colonel JOHN PLUNKETT VERNEY HAWKSLEY

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

Date of Death

Died 08 August 1916

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT

I. V. 28.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order, Three times Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Order of the Osmanieh (4th Class). Son of James Taylor Hawksley and Emily Julia Hawksley, of Caldy Island, Pembrokeshire. Served in the South African and Sudan Campaigns (South Kordofan, 1910).
  • Personal Inscription GARDE L'HONNEUR
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