Ernest Arthur Hawkes

A Fourth Hand with Trawler Rupee (Brixham), Ernest died on 3rd of October 1917. 

Ernest was born at Carlton Colville in 1900, a son of William and Martha Ann Hawkes. He was baptised at Saint Mark's Church, Oulton Broad, on 13 January 1901.His family lived at Beccles Road, Carlton Colville. By in 1911 they were still living at Beccles Road and later Ernest's mother lived at Waverley House, The Avenue, South Lowestoft.

Ernest's father was a trawler skipper and Ernest became the 4th Hand on his father's trawler the Rupee.

On 3 October 1917 the Rupee was 12 miles north of Lundy when captured by a German submarine which proceeded to sink the trawler, by gunfire. Four of the crew, including Ernest, and his father, were killed. 

Ernest's uncle Robert served with the Suffolk Regiment and died in 1917.