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Source:# 343 'B'Coy.
URL1: sailed for Eng. 12.5.1902 aboard the 'Lake Erie' on passage home.
URL2: sailed for Eng. 29.5.1902 aboard the 'Roslin Castle' on passage home.
URL3: Last week [c5.1902], cablegrams published in the metropolitan Press stated that Lieut. HOWINKS, of the West Australian Mounted Infantry, had sailed from Capetown for England. The name of the officer should have been HAWKINS, to whom I referred a fortnight ago. He was convalescent in hospital, after a bout of enteric fever, when the Sixth Contingent, of which he was a subaltern, left Capetown.
URL4: Lieut. HAWKINS, of the Sixth Contingent, was in hospital when his comrades left for home. He had been ill with enteric feyer for a very long time, but was recovering when the contingent left for
home. He intended leaving for England during this month [5.1902].
URL5: Mr. J HAWKINS, Westgarth Street, Malvern, has received a cable message from his son, Lieutenant TF HAWKINS, of the 6th West Australian Contingent, who was reported dangerously ill from enteric fever, Newcastle, Natal, on the 24th ult. [1.1902],
as follows - "Great improvement now convalescent."
URL6: Yesterday [23.1.1902] the Premier (Mr. Peacock) received a cable message from Cape Town stating that Lieutenant JF HAWKINS, son of Mr. WE HAWKINS, of Melbourne, and an officer of the 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry, was dangerously ill of enteric fever at Newcastle, Natal. A second message stated that the following men were dangerously ill at Charlestown on January 19 [1902] - No. 1504, J DUGGAN; No.
1275, John HEDLEY; and No. 1510, J CASEY, all of the 5th Victorian Mounted
Infantry. No. 899, Corporal J MORGAN and No. 727, J MCCORKILL (sic), were also ill of enteric fever at Wakkerstroom.
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