Hawke, EAF
(1897 - 1918)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
27th July 1897
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1910 - 1915
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
Tolgulla, Shortlands Road, Shortlands
REGIMENT
Royal Field Artillery
FINAL RANK:
Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
27th December 1918
AGE AT DEATH:
21
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Woolwich
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
St. Day (Holy Trinity) Churchyard, Cornwall
Lieutenant Edward Anthony Francis Hawke
Born on July 27th 1897, Edward was the eldest child, and only son, of a surgeon, also named Edward Hawke, who would later be made an O.B.E., and his wife, Dora. He joined Dulwich in the summer of 1910, at which time he also qualified for a junior scholarship. By 1914 he was a member of the 1st XV, as well as the cricket 1st XI, and in the following year, his last at the College, he was once again in both teams, as well as being an editor of The Alleynian.
After leaving Dulwich at the end of 1915 Edward signed up for military service and wascommissioned in the Royal Field Artillery in January 1916. He was sent out to Mesopotamia that September. While there he was present at the taking of both Kut and Baghdad, and was wounded in the summer of 1917 whilst serving as an assistant to Sir Arnold Wilson, Civil Commissioner for Mesopotamia. In April 1918, not long after having been promoted to Lieutenant, he was transferred to France, where he took part in fighting around Vimy Ridge. That July he was invalided home due to malaria, and after his recovery was based at Woolwich. It was whilst serving there that he was killed, on December 27th, in a motor accident.
