- SURNAME
Hawkes
- FORENAME
Ernest Henry Albert (Ernie)
- UNIT
Special Boat Squadron
- RANK
Sergeant
- NUMBER
850546
- DATE OF DEATH
2nd October 1943
- AGE
23
- GRAVESITE
Rhodes War Cemetery, Greece 1.B.4
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit 116 Battery 55 H.A.A.Regiment, Royal Artillery
born 26.07.1920 Kent
son of Captain Ernest Thomas and Elsie Ellen Hawkes, Gillingham, Kent
killed on Island of Simi
probably shot by one of his own men who accidentally discharged captured German machine gun
DATE OF DEATH:
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