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HAWKE, William Strudwick
(Service number 27289)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	18/05/1896	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	South Road, Waimate
Occupation	Seedsman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	W. HAWKE (father), South Road, Waimate
Religion	Methodist
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	18th Reinforcements, Spexialist Machine-Gun Section
Date	16 October 1916
Transport	Willochra
Embarked From		Destination

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Death

Date	19 July 1973	Age	77 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices	Christchurch
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

William Strudwick Hawke was the son of Cornishman Woodman Hawke and his wife, Elizabeth Anne née Bateman. He married Cecilia Hart in 1921. His brother Alfred James Hawke also served in World War I. william served in World War II also.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [03 November 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs)

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