28 April 2010

6344099 Sgt James Ernest Hawkins, 1st Bn, Royal West Kent Regt

6344099 Sergeant James E Hawkins of the 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died on the 28th April 1943. He was the son of Charles John and Mary Victoria Hawkins of Farnham, Surrey, and the husband of Mary Hawkins, of Hampstead Norris, Berkshire. He has no known gave and is commemorated on the Mejdez-el-Bab Memorial in Tunisia.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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