1911 Census (Oakley, Ref 004)
Name Cyril G. Hawes
Address: Oakley
Building Cottage
Age: 15
Born 1896, Oakley, Bucks
Status Single
Occupation Houseboy on Farm
Other people on census
Mother (Head): Eliza Hawes (54, widows, occupation, born 1857 Bladon, Oxon)
Sisters: Emily Hawes (30, single, Domestic servant, born 1881, Oakley, Bucks
1901 Census (Oakley, ref 043)
Name Cyril G. Hawes
Address: In the Village, Oakley
Age: 5
Born 1896
Other people on census
Father (Head): William Hawes (59, married, Agricultural cattleman on Farm, occupation, born 1841, Oakley, Bucks)
Mother: Eliza Hawes (44, married, born 1857, Bladon, Oxon)
Brothers: James S. Hawes (17, single, ordinary agricultural labourer on Farm, born 1884, year, born Oakley, Bucks)
Sisters: Edith R Hawes (8, born 1893, Oakley, Bucks)
1891 Census (Oakley, ref 070)
Address: In the village
People on census
Father (Head): William Hawes (40, married, Farm labourer, born 1851, Oakley, Bucks)
Mother (Head): Eliza Hawes (34, married, born 1857 Bladon, Oxon)
Sisters: Emily Hawes (10, Scholar, born 1881, Oakley, Bucks
Brothers: James S. Hawes (7, Scholar, born 1884, year, born Oakley, Bucks)
1881 Census (Oakley, ref 073)
Address: Centre of the village
People on census
Father (Head): William Hawes (30, married, Farm labourer, born 1851, Oakley, Bucks)
Mother (Head): Eliza Hawes (35, married, born 1856 Bladon, Oxon)
Sisters: Emily Hawes (9 months, born 1880, Oakley, Bucks
Private Cyril George HAWES
Known as Cyril George Hawes
Born: April 1896, Oakley
Regiment Royal Marine Light Infantry
Rank Private
Married: Unmarried
Died: 13th November 1918
Cause of Death Died from Dysentery whilst POW.
Age at death 22
Buried Liege (Robermont) Cemetery
Father: William Hawes (born Jan 1851, Oakley, Bucks; baptised, 27th Jul 1851, Oakley Church; married 31st Dec 1877, Oakley Church; died 1901, age 50, Oakley, Bucks; buried 20th Nov 1901, Oakley Church)
Mother: Eliza Hawes nee Danbury (born 1856, Bladon, Oxon; baptised 28 Sept 1856, Bladon; married 31st Dec 1877, Oakley Church; died 1930, age 73, Kennington, Oxford; buried 29th March 1930, Oakley Church)
Brothers (2) James Stephen Hawes (born 1883, Oakley, Bucks; married Florence A. Twyford in Oct/Dec 1914, Willesden; death Dec 1932, age 49, Willesden)
Arthur William Hawes (baptised 6th Jul 1879, Oakley Church)
Sisters (2) Emily Hawes (born 1880, Oakley, Bucks; baptised 5th Sept 1880, Oakley Church)
Edith Ruth Hawes (born 2nd May 1892, Oakley, Bucks; bapt. 14th Dec 1892, Oakley Church;)
Paternal Grandfather: James Hawes (born 1803, Oakley, Bucks; married 20 April 1835, Oakley Church; death 1853 age 50, Oakley)
Paternal Grandmother: Clarissa Hawes nee Griffin (born 1814, Oakley, Bucks; bapt. 20th March 1814; married 20 April 1835, Oakley Church; bur. 16th Feb 1897, age 82, Oakley Church)
Maternal Grandfather: Stephen Danbury (born 1835, Begbroke, Oxon; married 11 Dec 1853, Bladon, Oxon; death 1889, 56, Cottisford; buried 14 February 1889, Cottisford)
Maternal Grandmother: Emily Danbury nee Green (born 1835, St Peters, Oxford, married 11 Dec 1853, Bladon, Oxon; death 1889, 56, Cottisford; buried 13th August 1889, Cottisford)
Military background
ROYAL MARINES
Enlisted at 31st August 1916 (aged 20)
Service number PO/1619 (S)
Regiment during World War 1
Royal Marine Light Infantry
Memorial
Liege (Robermont) Cemetery.
Liege was attacked by the Germans on 4 August 1914. The city itself was occupied on the 7th but the last forts were not captured until the 16th. Liege remained in German hands until the end of the war.
The city cemetery at Robermont was used for the burial of Allied prisoners of war and now contains French, Belgian, Italian, Russian and Commonwealth war graves plots.
The Commonwealth plot contains 50 burials of the First World War, and one from the Second World War (in additional one Belgian national, who flew with the RAF, is buried elsewhere in the cemetery)
Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
First Names: Cyril George
Surname: Hawes
Birth town: Oakley, Bucks
Nationality: British
Enlisted 31 Aug 1916
Division Royal Marine Light Infantry:
Portsmouth Division-Short Service
Rank: Private
Service Number: PO/1619 (S)
Information 1st Royal Marine Battalion Draft for BEF 01/02/1917-24/03/1918 POW.
Date of death: 13/11/1918
Age 22
Fate: Died from Dysentery whilst POW.
Service 1st Royal Marine Light Infantry
Royal Naval Division
Cemetery Liege (Robermont) Cemetery
Relatives notified Son of William and Eliza Hawes, of Gibraltar House, Kennington, Oxford. Native of Oakley, Bucks.
More Information Mother: Eliza
Address: Nr. The Manor, Oakley, Bucks.