Part 95

=HAWKINS, LIONEL HOPE=, Lieut., 1st, attd. 6th, Dragoon Guards, only _s._ of Isaac Thomas Hawkins, of 90, Drayton Gardens, S.W., C.E., late Colonial Civil Service, by his wife, Mary Hope, yst. dau. of Richard Butterworth, of Lancaster; _b._ Chichester, 28 July, 1886; educ. Waynfleet; Winchester, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Dragoon Guards, 2 Feb. 1907, going to India with his regt. the following Nov., and was promoted Lieut., 18 Feb. 1908. He passed his Captain’s examination in Oct. 1912, and did good work with the signalling, having charge of a brigade for two years. Being in England on leave when war broke out, he volunteered and was attached to the 6th Dragoon Guards, and went to France, 15 Aug. 1914. He served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action on the night of 31 Oct.-1 Nov., when the Germans broke through our lines between Messines and Wytschaete in the 1st Battle of Ypres. The two forces had got mixed up, and Lieut. Hawkins observing a party approaching the trench which he held with his troop, got out of the trench and went forward. According to a statement made by a brother officer they shouted “Don’t fire! We are the London Scottish!” and he therefore continued to go forward. He had not gone more than 30 yards when he fell, shot through the right side. Two of his men immediately went out and brought him back to the trench, and he was carried back by his own men and the London Scottish towards Kemmel, but died shortly afterwards; _unm._ His Adjutant, Capt. P.M.A. Kerans, wrote: “Your son, of whom we had all grown very fond, was killed in an attack by the Germans in a line between Messines and Wytschaete in Southern Belgium on the night of 31 Oct. and 1 Nov. It appears that after the enemy had penetrated our line a party was observed by your son approaching the trench which he held with his troop. He ordered fire to open on them, but they shouted ‘Don’t fire, we are the Scottish’ and he ordered his men to cease fire; himself, bravely, but incautiously, got out of his trench and went towards them. He had gone about 30 yards when the Germans--for it was the Germans and not the London Scottish--opened fire and your son was seen to fall. Two men at once went out and brought him back to the trench. He was seen to be badly wounded in the right side and he was carried back by our men and the London Scottish towards Kemmel. On reaching a place of comparative safety two of the men went off to try and find a stretcher and two remained with your son who died very shortly afterwards. He had been unconscious from a few minutes after he had been hit and passed quietly away. The men were unable to bury him then and were obliged to leave him covered with a blanket at the edge of a wood, where I have no doubt, he has since been buried, but as, unfortunately, the Germans now hold the piece of ground, it has not been possible to do what would otherwise have been done. You have lost a gallant son and we a brave and well-beloved comrade who showed military qualities of a high order”; and Major S. W. Webster: “The farm we held was rushed by the Germans about midnight on 31 Oct. I at once went to the trench in which your son was. We retired from there to some reserve trenches about 200 yards in rear. I was there with him for about half an hour, I then left him to go and see a troop who were holding a trench on his right. After I had gone I believe he went forward a little to see if they really were Germans, as he seemed to think they were our own troops--it was pitch dark at the time. He was shot through the body, and some of my own men carried him back. He died when they had carried him about ½ mile to the rear. My man, Private Willings, then left the body under a fence. It was impossible to recover the body or even the wounded, as we had to evacuate the position at dawn. I am perfectly certain from what the men told me, that your son died within half an hour of his wound. It must seem strange to you, that we could not recover the body, but we were fighting for our lives through the night, in the pitch dark, over a front of at least half a mile. Three of our own officers and many men were left behind, and we do not even know if they are dead or prisoners.” Col. I. Annesley also wrote (12 Dec.): “Had your son lived it would not have been long before he earned great distinction, for he was very brave and a fine leader of men. On the night of the poor fellow’s death there were so many heroic actions on the part of my officers and men that it was impossible to pick out anyone in particular as being better than his fellows. As I say, had your son lived I should certainly have sent his name in for consideration at a later period for his splendid work as a troop leader from the beginning of hostilities, and I have written to this effect to the Brigadier General Commanding the 4th Cavalry Brigade, as I now hold a Staff appointment”; and Brigadier-General the Hon. Cecil Bingham, 4th Cavalry Brigade: “I only met your son, Lionel, when he became attached to the 6th Dragoon Guards, but I got to know him pretty well, and my regard for him grew as we got to know each other. During the retirement, and subsequently, he had several difficult patrols to carry out, and he always did his part with conspicuous success. He was a very brave man, and was careful of the lives of his men. On the night of his death, he, in company with many others, performed acts which redounded to their everlasting credit, but you will understand that all cannot be rewarded, the number was limited to two per unit, and a selection made from the reports.” In India he was known as one of the finest polo players, and was in the winning team of many tournaments, and besides was a good all-round sportsman. He played cricket for his school, won the steeplechase for 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.

=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.

=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.

=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.

=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.”

=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, while bravely leading his Company, “A,” which was literally mown down by machine gun and rifle fire; our Artillery having failed to cut barbed wire defending the section of German trench. A fellow officer wrote: “His name will go down in the history of the Regt. as the officer who led the attack in the severest fight the battn. has ever had to take part in.” He _m._ at Edinburgh, 1904, Constance Frances, dau. of the late Sir Thomas Macdonald Miller, of Glenlee, co. Ayr, and had a son, Montagu Ernest, _b._ 16 Jan. 1905.

=HAYLES, EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1999), 197731, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HAYMAN, JAMES GEORGE=, Private, No. 7574, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 5th _s._ of the late Amos Hayman, of High Brooms, Tunbridge Wells, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of (--) Coorke; _b._ Longford, co. Oxford, 3 July, 1889; educ. Tunbridge Wells National School; enlisted, 16 Dec. 1907; served three years with the Colours, then passed into the Reserve and worked as a Gardener; mobilised, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 11 Aug.; served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne, Ypres, Landrecies, &c. and was killed by a shell while sitting talking in the trenches at Rue du Bois, Belgium, 20 May, 1915. He _m._ at Tunbridge Wells, 4 Feb. 1911, Mary Louise (164, Portland Street, Walworth, S.E.), dau. of Moses Baker, of Walworth, and had three sons: Amos George, _b._ 29 July, 1911; Albert William, _b._ 23 March, 1913; and John Edward, _b._ 28 May, 1914.

=HAYMES, ALBERT=, A.B., 219142, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAYNES, ERNEST GEORGE=, Stoker, R.N.R., 790U, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAYNES, HENRY AGULAR=, Private, No. 878, 18th Battn. Australian L.I., 2nd _s._ of the late Commander W. Clarke Haynes, R.N.; _b._ 187-, served through the South African War with the Cape Mounted Rifles (medal); went to Australia; joined the Australian Imperial Force after the outbreak of the European War, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 21–25 Aug. 1915; _unm._

=HAYTER, CYRIL=, Lieut., 8th South Canterbury Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 5th and yst. _s._ of Commander Francis Hayter, R.N., later a run-holder in New South Wales and New Zealand, by his wife, Eugenie Elizabeth, dau. of Frederick Huddleston; _b._ Rollesby, Burkes Pass, South Canterbury, New Zealand, 4 Feb. 1890; educ. Christ’s College, Christchurch, New Zealand, where he was a member of the College Cadet Corps; served sometime in the Mackenzie Mounted Rifles (Volunteers), and was gazetted Lieut. 8th South Canterbury Mounted Rifles when the Territorial system came into force in New Zealand. On the outbreak of war he was one of the first to volunteer for Imperial service. He left for Egypt 16 Oct.; afterwards going to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action in the brilliant attack by the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and the 5th Connaught Rangers on Hill 60, on the Azmak Dere, Gallipoli, 27 Aug. 1915. At the time of his death he was the only officer of his squadron left, all the others having been killed or wounded in the previous fighting; _unm._ Lieut. Hayter was mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was a very keen sportsman; in 1908 and 1909 respectively he won the featherweight and middle-weight boxing championships at Christ’s College, Christchurch, and was an excellent shot. Two elder brothers of his are now (1916) at the Front, one with the Royal Engineers in France, and the other with the New Zealand Force.

=HAYTER, GEORGE ALFRED=, Cooper Pensioner, 167166, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.