CO-CCCF-0036

Record Date: 
4 July 2013
Graveyard: 
Christchurch
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN LOVING MEMORY

OF 

GEORGE WHITE HAWKES, D.S.O., M.C.

(LATE) LIEUT. COLONEL 5TH ROYAL IRISH REGT.,

SOMETIME OF CARHUE AND OF SEAMOUNT, CARRIGALINE,

WHO DIED IN LONDON 3RD DEC. 1939, AGED 63.

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.91001014001
Longitude: 
-8.7928953800063
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Lieutenant Colonel
Name: 
George White
Surname: 
Hawkes
Date of death - day: 
3
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1939
Age: 
63
Address: 
Carhue, Seamount Carrigaline and London.
Notes: 

The initials 'D.S.O.' and 'M.C.' stand for Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross respectively, being British military decorations. See also CO-CCCF-0037.

See also the Magourney Burial Register which has details of earlier deaths and burials of Hawkes family members.

George White Hawkes, D.S.O., M.C., came from a well known family who had land in Carhue (Coachford) and Carrigaline. He served in the 5th (Service} Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment in Gallipoli (Suvla Bay), Salonika, The Somme and Ypres. After the war he went to Canada, finally returning to live in Carrigaline. His wife, Emily Victoria Smith, was the daughter of the Dean of St. Finbarr’s, Cork. (Source: ACR Heritage).