The Menin Gate, Ieper (Ypres), Belgium
Neil's Harbour, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
At 8pm every evening,
the Last Post is played inside the Menin Gate in remembrance.
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Private George Francis (Frederick Le Sueur) Hawkins
Canadian Infantry (Royal Canadian
Regiment)
16/11/1917
Born in 1897 at St Helier, Jersey. Son of Jersey born
Philip George and Nova Scotia born Susanne Hawkins,
née Budge).
Next of kin: Mrs. Warr (sister), Neil's Harbour, Cape
Breton, Nova Scotia.
Brother to Private James
Van Alstine Baring Gould Hawkins
Died of Wounds, aged 20 years
His father Philip George Hawkins (Painter by trade)
was married to Susanne Budge. The couple married in
Novia Scotia and travelled to Jersey GB where Philip
was from. Sadly Philip died (July 1898) within George's
first year, and the Government of Jersey paid for Susanne
Hawkins and 5 children to return to her native Nova
Scotia on the SS Vancouver from Liverpool 1st January
1899. Susanne subsequently married English born William
Ward, a fisherman.
Canadian
attestation papers
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