Name
James Hawes
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/03/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
33500
Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY, GRENAY
I. O. 12
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, List of names (probable) on the Abbey Parish street memorials, St Albans Cathedral, Lower Dagnall Street, Street Memorial, St Albans, Not on the Harpenden memorials
Pre War
James was born in St Albans in 1895 to George Hawes, labourer, and Emma (nee Lambourn).
By the 1901 Census the family were living at Wheathampstead Road , Harpenden. On the 1911 census they were living on Heath Road, Harpenden and James was working as an office boy at a Rubber Works. James had 1 elder and 1 younger brother. There were 4 sisters.
In 1915 James married Minnie Perrin, they lived at 39 Lower Dagnall Street, St Albans and had a daughter Gwendolene.
Wartime Service
.James enlisted in the Bedfordshire Regiment as Private 33500. He joined the 8th battalion in France.
On the night of 4 Mar 1917 the Battalion were entrenched at Maroc near Loos. They were engaged that night in Trench repairs but had casualties of 2 other ranks killed and 2 wounded. James was one of those casualties.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £4 and arrears of £3 6s 8d was paid to his widow.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Gareth Hughes
