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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 666

(x) Four: Sapper E. F. E. Hawksbee, Royal Engineers, late Bugler, King's Royal Rifle Corps, a Chelsea Pensioner in retirement

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing's Nek, Belfast, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (312 Bglr: E. Hawkesbee. K.R.R.C.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (312 Bglr: E. Hawksbee, K.R.R.C.); British War and Victory Medals (276823 Spr. E. F. E. Hawksbee. R.E.), note spelling of surname, cleaned and polished, good fine (4)

Ernest Francis Egerton Hawksbee was born in 1878 at Islington, London, serving with the 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps from 30 April 1898. Posted to the Army Reserve from 6 February 1906 - 27 May 1909, he served with the Royal Engineers Railway Operating Division in France from 23 May 1917. Posted to the 25th Light Railway Workshop and the 1st Light Railway Operating Company, Ernest was discharged Class 'Z' Army Reserve on 26 April 1919. He was admitted to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea as Pensioner No. 253 on 2 August 1949, and died on 18 June 1956; sold with an Order of the Buffaloes Earl of Athlone Lodge Commemorative Medal, engraved to reverse: 'Presented to Primo E. F. Hawksbee, "Chelsea Pensioner" by Primo Babcock of the Earl of Athlone Lodge to Commemorate his Visit to South Africa, March 2nd 1950'.

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