Arthur Charles Richard HAWLEY

  General Notes:

Births Dec 1898
Hawley Arthur Charles R Keynsham 5c 556

Death
Name: HAWLEY, Arthur C R
Unit:Royal Air Force
Rank:Lieutenant
Year: 1918
Volume : O.17
Page: 125
Record source: GRO War Death Army Officers Indices (1914 to 1921)


1901 census
RG13/2351 Folio 24 page 15
Address 4 South View, Saltford, near Bath, north Somerset
Arthur E Hawley, 25, Head, Grocers assistant wine and Spirit merchant, born Bath Somerset
Beatrice Hawley, 23, Wife, born Cardiff, Glamorgan
Arthur C Hawley,2, Son, born Saltford Somerset
Lily E Exell, 20, Visitor,born Bristol

1911 census
RG14PN15060 RG78PN908 RD319 SD8 ED2 SN24
9 Fairlawn Road, Montpelier, Bristol (5 rooms)
Arthur Edwin, Hawley, Head, 35, Married, Grocer's Assistant, Somerset Bath
Beatrice Hawley, Wife, 33, Married 13 years, Assistant (crossed through), Glamorgan Cardiff
Arthur Charles Hawley, Son, 12, , School, Somerset Saltford
Marjorie Hawley, Daughter, 3, , , Bristol Gloster
- against Beatrice it states there had been 3 children born alive, 2 living and 1 had died
- nothing listed in the infirmity column of the form

On the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site
HAWLEY, ARTHUR CHARLES RICHARD
Rank: Lieutenant
Date of Death: 09/08/1918
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force 54th Sqdn.
Panel Reference
Memorial ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of Arthur Edwin and Beatrice Hawley, of 33, Cromwell Rd., Montpelier, Bristol.

The Arras Flying Services Memorial will be found in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras. The cemetery is near the Citadel, approximately 2 Kms due west of the railway station.
The GPS coordinates for the cemetery are 50.28670, 2.76057
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to the memorial is possible via an alternative entrance at the rear of Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery.
Historical Information
The French handed over Arras to Commonwealth forces in the spring of 1916 and the system of tunnels upon which the town is built were used and developed in preparation for the major offensive planned for April 1917.
The Commonwealth section of the FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY was begun in March 1916, behind the French military cemetery established earlier. It continued to be used by field ambulances and fighting units until November 1918. The cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields and from two smaller cemeteries in the vicinity.
The cemetery contains 2,650 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 10 of which are unidentified. The graves in the French military cemetery were removed after the war to other burial grounds and the land they had occupied was used for the construction of the Arras Memorial and Arras Flying Services Memorial.
The adjacent ARRAS MEMORIAL commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918, the eve of the Advance to Victory, and have no known grave. The most conspicuous events of this period were the Arras offensive of April-May 1917, and the German attack in the spring of 1918. Canadian and Australian servicemen killed in these operations are commemorated by memorials at Vimy and Villers-Bretonneux. A separate memorial remembers those killed in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917.
The adjacent ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL commemorates more than 1,000 airmen of the Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal Flying Corps, and the Royal Air Force, either by attachment from other arms of the forces of the Commonwealth or by original enlistment, who were killed on the whole Western Front and who have no known grave.
During the Second World War, Arras was occupied by United Kingdom forces headquarters until the town was evacuated on 23 May 1940. Arras then remained in German hands until retaken by Commonwealth and Free French forces on 1 September 1944. The 1939-1945 War burials number 8 and comprise 3 soldiers and 4 airmen from the United Kingdom and 1 entirely unidentified casualty. Located between the 2 special memorials of the 1914-1918 War is the special memorial commemorating an officer of the United States Army Air Force, who died during the 1939-1945 War. This special memorial, is inscribed with the words "Believed to be buried in this cemetery". In addition, there are 30 war graves of other nationalities, most of them German.
Both cemetery and memorials were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, with sculpture by Sir William Reid Dick. The memorial was unveiled by Lord Trenchard, Marshal of the Royal Air Force on 31 July 1932 (originally it had been scheduled for 15 May, but due to the sudden death of French President Doumer, as a mark of respect, the ceremony was postponed until July).