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Name: HAWKSWORTH, Percival (Capt.)

Birth Date: 3 June 1894 Agra, Bengal

First Date: 1930

Profession: Farmer, ex-army

Area: 'Bountiful' Kiminini, Kitale, small soft drinks factory on farm called Parg Soft Drinks

Married: Annie

Children: Reginald Percival (1938-30 Nov 1997 Cape province, S. Africa); Gerald

Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, Legion

War Service: Indian Army

General Information:

Hut has Capt. P. Hawkesworth.
Legion has Colonel P. Hawksworth, Box 192 Kitale; 4/6 Royal [?] and 16th Punjabis 1916-47, joined Kenya British Legion c. 1963
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List
Gazette 23 June 1967 revocation of management order served on Col P. Hawkesworth re Farm L.R. No. 3805 Kitale area
Gazette 7 July 1961 Reginald Percival Hawkesworth Box 3805 Kitale in Jurors' list
The family had lived in India
John Edwards in Kitale School Newsletter Mid-Year 2021: Reg Hawkesworth was a short, muscle-bound character whose father had a small soft drink factory on his farm near Kitale, called Parg Soft Drinks. PARG stood for the family's initials, Percy, Ann, Reg and Gerald. Reg eventually left the district, married, and I think went to England. Younger brother Gerald Hawkesworth had a similar nuggetty stature but was even shorter, which made us kids feel there was something wrong with him although there seemed no good reason for that. The family had lived in India, so Reggie was nicknamed Paki, short for Pakistan, which to us boys was close enough to India. Or yet again perhaps they had in fact come from Pakistan. There was a rumour that the parents were closely related, possibly cousins, which since they were both themselves very short, we kids felt would account for Gerald. Gerald though was in a very much lower Standard at school than I was, possibly not even there at the same time as me but being Kitale we could follow what people did. After Gerald left school, he became a mercenary in the Congo, fighting for one black leader against another.

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