This name is on the St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(Charles Norman Hawkins)
(Hawkins, Charles Norman)
Service no. K/20044
Stoker 1st class, Royal Navy, H.M.S. "Natal."
Died 30 December 1915, aged 22
Remembered at Chatham Naval Memorial, UK.
Born 1.4.93. Southwark, London.
Father, Charles, 10 Gladstone Place, Belmore St, Wandsworth, S.W.
See Thomas Henry Mizen, who is remembered at Stockwell War Memorial, for more information about the explosion aboard the Natal. Hawkins' body was not recovered.
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Charles Norman Hawkins was an 18-year-old cab washer living at 43 Cardigan Street, Kennington with his father, stepmother, sister, step-siblings and half-siblings. Charles Hawkins, 43, was a housepainter born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire; his wife Mary Ann Hawkins, 41, was born in Chelsea. Charles Senior and Mary Ann had four children (another one had previously died) and Mary Ann had a further two children from a previous marriage. There were, altogether, 11 people living in four rooms.
Charles Norman Hawkins, 18, cab washer, born in Southwark
Edith Gertrude Hawkins, 16, washer-up, born in Lambeth (sister)
Cecil Edgar Hawkins, 10, born in Lambeth (half-brother)
Lilian Hawkins, 6, born in Lambeth (half-sister)
Edward Hawkins, 5, born in Lambeth (half-brother)
Sidney John Hawkins, 2, born in Lambeth (half-brother)
Mary Elizabeth Chilvers, 21, litho layer-on, born in Lambeth
Katherine Emily Chilvers, 19, factory hand, born in Lambeth
Ethel Maud Chilvers, 16, factory hand, born in Lambeth
Note: Cardigan Street features on this page of the Partleton family history: