Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Wireless Operator

Regiment/Service: Mercantile Marine

Unit Text: H.M.H.S. "Llandovery Caslle" (London)

Age: 21

Date of Death: 27/06/1918

Additional information: Son of George Frederick and Edith Bruton Hawkes, of The Three Kings, Fair Green, Mitcham Common, London. Born at Leytonstone.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Memorial: TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

Wireless operators until the 1920's when Union-Castle began employing their own radio officers were supplied by the Marconi Marine company.