Regiment: Kings Royal Rifle Corps.
Died: 02 November 1914 aged 36 in Belgium. Killed in action.
Battle: First Battle of Ypres. Cemetery: Ypres Menin Gate P 51/53
Son of Sir Henry Hawley, 5th Bart., and Lady Hawley. B. 1878.
Army Side.
King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1899; Captain 1905; South African War 1899-1902, Despatches, Queen’s Medal with 6 Clasps, King’s Medal with 2 Clasps.
Husband of Ursula Mary Hawley, of 14, Stafford Place, Buckingham Gate, London, S.W.
Served in the South African Campaign.
2nd Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps.
He joined the Battalion near Ypres with a draft of 105 men on the 1st November 1914. On the 2nd of November, the 2nd Battalion KRRC were ordered to assist the 1st Battalion and he was killed by a sniper at 4pm near the Chateau Herenthage just off the Menin Road to the east of Hooge.
Unit war diary:WO-95-1272-1