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Name: HAWKINS, Edward Brian Barkley CBE, DSO, MC (Major-General)

Birth Date: 9 Dec 1889 Bury St Edmunds

Death Date: 7 June 1966 Surrey

First Date: 1912

Profession: Farmer and serving officer KAR 1912, Maj. Gen. and GOC 1943/47

Area: Blood Pressure Ridge Murarashi Thomson's Falls, 1922 Maji

Married: In Paris 19 Jan 1924 Anne Debayser (French)

Children: Edward Richard (1925, was with Desert Locust Control); Jacqueline Nyala (Rousseau) (1927)

Book Reference: Gillett, Moyse, Rhodora, Debrett, KAD, Hut, Legion, DSO, SS, Web, Who's Who

War Service: W. York. Regt.

School: Winchester, Sandhurst

General Information:

Their House, 18 miles from Thomson's Falls, on the Equator, was designed and built in 1937 by Major Kincaird Lennox. - EA Annual 1948/49
Moyse - 1914 - with Northern Garrison   
Debrett - Major W. Yorkshire Regt., and serving with KAR, with rank of Lieut.-Col.; European War 1914-18 (despatches, DSO, Brevet Major); sometime Consul at Magi, S. Ethiopia   
KAD 1922 - H.B.M.'s Consul for W. Abyssinia, Maji
DSO - London Gazette 24/8/18 - Edward Brian Barkley Hawkins, Capt. (Temporary Major), West Yorkshire Regt. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Boldly attacking a superior enemy force, he inflicted severe casualties on them, thus diverting them from their objective, and being instrumental in causing their subsequent surrender. He has at all times shown the greatest courage and initiative, and has afforded a most inspiring example to the troops under him.
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Major E.B.B. Hawkins, DSO, Donnington Lodge, Newbury, Berks. - Farm 843 - Representative, Capt. T.J. Murray, MC, West Kenia
Web - The Western Front Association - Tunduru - May-Nov 1917 - Major Edward Brian Barkley Hawkins had carried out his orders to the letter.  He also received an immediate award of the Distinguished Service Order: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. 

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