Identity
Person No.
9483
Service No.
4211
Last Name
First Name
Harry
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H
Date of Birth
Unknown
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Age at Death
27
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause of Death
Killed in action. On the 18th October 1916, at 3.40 am, three companies of the 1st S.A.I. attacked Snag and Tail Trenches. The B Coy failed to realize that they had reached Snag Trench and continued beyond it. They had lost touch with their flanks and only some men succeeded to come back. Only a block was established at 50 metres of The Pimple. The D Company launched an attack at 5.45 pm and Snag Trench was occupied but the machine-gun fire from the Butte de Warlencourt took a heavy toll, leaving a small group in the trench
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Son of Mr. J. and Mrs. Emma Hawkins, of 13, Upper Drostdy St., Uitenhage, Cape Province. Harry Hawkins enlisted at Potchefstroom on 2 September 1915. After service in the Senussi Campaign in North Africa he went to the Somme and was wounded at the battle of Delville Wood on 18 July 1916. After recovering from his wound he was killed in action at the Butte de Warlencourt on 18 October 1916. He was a member of "B" Company, one of the ill-fated companies of 1st S.A.I. that disappeared without trace into the mist in the dawn attack on that day. Only one officer and one other rank survived to tell the fate of the missing companies
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South African War Graves Project