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VC633   Lanoe George Hawker

BORN   30 December 1890

DIED   23 November 1916   AGE   25

VC Won   25 July 1915   AGE   24

Place VC Won   Over Hooge, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1915

Name   Lanoe George Hawker   No.      

VC Issue No.   633   Awards   VC   DSO

Regiment   Royal Flying Corps, No. 6 Squadron & Corps of Royal Engineers

Later   

Now   Royal Air Force

Rank VC Won   Captain

Rank End Of Career   Major

Place Of Birth   'Homecroft', Longparish, Hampshire, England

Place Of Death   Near Luisenhof Farm, 2 miles east of Bapaume, France

Buried/Location Ashes   250 yards east of Luisenhof Farm, shot down 2 miles east of Bapaume, Pas de Calais, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   23 November 1916

Headstone   Named on the Arras Memorial to the Missing (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no. Grave unlocated

Gazetted   24 August 1915

VC Presented   5 October 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Named on Arras Memorial

P  Memorial window in St Nicholas's Church, Longparish, Hampshire

P  Named on Longparish War Memorial, Hampshire

P  Named on RAF Memorial at St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London

P  Named on memorial, Memorial Chapel, Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey

P  Named on Royal Engineers honours board, Royal Engineers Museum, Chatham, Kent

P  Stone and brick memorial, Ligny Thilloy, Pas-de-Calais, France

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Village Hall, Longparish, Hampshire

By The Way…

Invented thigh length fleece-lined 'fug boots' and 'Hawker fore-sight' ring-sight for machine gun

In November 1916 he was killed in a dogfight with Manfred von Richthofen - The Red Baron

VC Held By

Royal Air Force Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England

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Thank you to Kevin Brazier for the photos of the stone and brick memorial, Ligny Thilloy, Pas-de-Calais, France