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Major George William Bowman Hawkins

Hammer and Sickle Soviet Badge Star, exchanged by Lieutenant George William Hawkins of the King’s Own Royal Regiment, with Russians in Iran, circa 1941/42.
Accession Number: KO1931/01

Lenin Badge, exchanged by Lieutenant George William Hawkins of the King’s Own Royal Regiment, with Russians in Iran, circa 1941/42.
Accession Number: KO1931/02

Regular Army Reserve Badge
Accession Number: KO1931/03

Lion Badge
Accession Number: KO1931/04

Letter from The War Office, (Casualty Prisoners of War) to Lieutenant George William Bowman Hawkins, dated 30 Jun 1944, concerning other prisoners of war held in Italy, and listing the names of a number of officers, many of whom appear to be in the King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1931/05

Penny a Week News, Sep 1944
Accession Number: KO1931/06

Letter, from Chief Accountant, Salmon and Gluckstein Limited, City Road, London, concerning an order places at the Preston Branch for despatch of a Duty Free Parcel to Lieutenant Mills and Lieutenant Spier, British Prisoners of War in Germany.
Handwritten letter on the rear dated 20 Oct 1944.
Accession Number: KO1931/07

Red Cross Parcels Note of content of parcel, Prisoner of War, 1943
Accession Number: KO1931/08

Copy of letter from Major George William Bowman Hawkins, to Major J N Wickham, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, BETFOR (British Element Trieste Force) dated 4 Mar 1950, concerning Carlo D’Orlando, who Hawkins had last seen in Nov 1943.
Accession Number: KO1931/09

George William Bowman Hawkins, Officer Training Corps of Dawood’s School, Sandwich at Tidworth Camp, 1926.
Accession Number: KO1931/10

King’s Own Royal Regiment, Infantry Training Centre Rugby 15, 1939 mounted photograph.
Accession Number: KO1931/11

King’s Own Royal Regiment, Infantry Training Centre, Rugby 15 Team, 1939.
Postcards size images of KO1931/11
Accession Number: KO1931/12

Repatriated Prisoner of War Paymaster’s Advice of Emoluments issued, dated Dec 1942 for Acting Captain G W B Hawkins, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1931/13

Repatriated Prisoner of War Paymaster’s Advice of Emoluments issued, dated Dec 1943 for Acting Captain G W B Hawkins, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1931/14

Italian Prisoner of War Camp Record Card for Captain G W B Hawkins, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1931/15

Italian Prisoner of War Camp Record Card, incomplete, damaged and torn.
Accession Number: KO1931/16

1st Battalion King’s Own Royal Regiment Prisoner of War Officers photographed in Apr 1943 of Campo Concentramento PG21 Chieti near Pescara, Italy. These were all the King’s Own Officers in PG21 at that time, and they were joined shortly afterwards by Captain Patrick John Henry Weir MC King’s Own ex Long Range Desert Group (Special Air Service).
Back Row: Left to right: Lieutenant James Booth Donald ex B Company; Lieutenant Harold Vincent Roberts ex C Company; Lieutenant Kenneth Charles Bath ex A Company; Lieutenant William Drinkall Mills ex Carrier Platoon, HQ Company; Lieutenant Charles G Wingrove ex MTO HQ Company. Front Row: Left to right: Lieutenant Tryalen ex B Company; Captain George William Bowman Hawkins MBE ex Adjutant; Major Roger Wordsworth Hallam, ex Lines of Communication, Tobruk; Captain Denis Evelyn Henning ex OC C Company. All captured in retreat to Alamein, Jun 1942 - Jul 1942.
Accession Number: KO1931/17

Outside Prisoner of War Camp, Sulmona, Italy. This camp site was used for Austrian Prisoners of War in the First World War.
Accession Number: KO1931/18

View of Entrance to Prisoner of War Camp, PG 21, Italy. This was a newly built camp and was used as a Carabaniere Training Centre after the war.
Accession Number: KO1931/19

View of Sulmona Prisoner of War Camp Italy. Note its location at the foot of the Appenine Mountains.
Accession Number: KO1931/20

2000 Graves, New Orleans Battlefield, United States of America.
Accession Number: KO1931/21

Battery sites, New Orleans Battlefield`, United States of America.
Accession Number: KO1931/22

Museum and Memorial at New Orleans, United States of America
Accession Number: KO1931/23

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