Hubert Checkley HARDWICKE

Surname: HARDWICKE

Christian Names: Hubert Checkley

Date & Place of Birth: 7th May, 1891, Lower Mitcham SA

Birth index

Given Name(s): Hubert Checkley

Last Name: HARDWICKE

Birth Date: 1891, May 07

Gender: M

Father: John HARDWICKE

Mother: Isabella Thomas CHECKLEY

Birth Place/Residence: Lower Mitcham

District: Adelaide

Book/Page: 478/473

Service Number: 2115

Service Unit: 12th Battalion

Date & Place of Enlistment: 18th March, 1915, Adelaide, Age 23

Profession prior to Enlistment: Farmer

Date of Return to Aust. & Date of Discharge: N/A

Nature of Casualty:

Date KIA: 24th July, 1916

Place KIA: France, Villers Bretonneux

Next of Kin (NOK) Address

Father: John Hardwicke (1860 - 24 Aug 1942)

Mother: Isabella Hardwicke (nee Checkley), Brighton SA (1858 - 2 Mar 1928)

Service

Gallipoli: Yes

France: Yes

Campaign Medals: 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Rank: Lance Corporal

Kingscote Monument Yes

Penneshaw Honour Board

KI Connection:

(Farmer)

Resolved to be placed on Fallen Soldiers monument at Kingscote. District Council of Kingscote. (1925, September 19). The Kangaroo Island Courier (Kingscote, SA : 1907 - 1951), p. 2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article191554635

1914 resident Kangaroo Island Agricultural and Horticultural Society. (1914, November 7). The Kangaroo Island Courier (Kingscote, SA : 1907 - 1951), p. 4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189514786

The Island friends of Lce.-Cpl. H. C. Hardwicke will regret to hear that he was killed in action in France on July 21. Previous to enlisting he was engaged in oil making at Cygnet River in partnership with Mr F. J. Hamilton, and was highly respected throughout the district. He was the second son of Mr and Mrs J. Hardwicke, of Brighton, and was 25 years of age.

PERSONAL. (1916, September 2). The Kangaroo Island Courier (Kingscote, SA : 1907 - 1951), p. 2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189504132

Kleinig Ref: {890

See photo at http://www.ww1.sa.gravesecrets.net/har.html

A.I.F. Project https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=126859

Hubert Chickley HARDWICKE

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4968355&S=1 plus 46 more documents

Memorial to Hubert Checkley Hardwicke at Villers Bretonneux

Photo May 2017: Compliments of Gordon Ings ex RAAF