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HAWKE, Reginald Kenneth
Personal Details
Service Number: | SX7175 |
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Enlisted: | 29 June 1940 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion |
Born: | Kapunda, South Australia, 5 December 1913 |
Home Town: | Mount Pleasant, Barossa, South Australia |
Schooling: | Kapunda High School |
Occupation: | Barber |
Died: | Natural causes, Adelaide, South Australia, 13 July 1997, aged 83 years |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Kapunda District WW2 Honour Roll, Mount Pleasant District WW2 Honour Roll |
Service History
World War 2 Service
29 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Private, SX7175, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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29 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX7175 | |
30 Jun 1940: | Involvement Private, SX7175 | |
9 Mar 1942: | Imprisoned Java | |
6 Dec 1945: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, SX7175, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Hawke
Cremated and ashes scattered in Davidson Reserve, adjacent to his childhood home in Kapunda, on 30th December 2015 by his son John and Grandson Bill