Great War Officer’s 1914 Star trio awarded to Private H.V.S Hawes, 1st Battalion, 28th London Regiment – Artists Rifles, later Second Lieutenant H.V.S. Hawes, 2nd Lancers, Indian Army (Gardner’s Horse) who saw service on the Western Front from 26th October 1914 who was later commissioned and saw service as a Second Lieutenant with the 2nd Lancers, Indian Army (Gardner’s Horse) on the Western Front including at the Battle of Cambrai before transferring to Egypt where he would have seen service in the later stages of the campaign in Palestine.
Group of 3: 1914 Star; (2272 PTE. H.V.S. HAWES. 1/28 LOND:R.) British War Medal and Victory Medal; (2. LIEUT. H.V.S. HAWES.) Mounted loose for wear.
Condition: mounted loose for wear, Good Very Fine
Along with:
Small hallmarked medallion, the reverse engraved ‘Boys Race 1899 H.V.S. HAWES’
Small hallmarked medallion, the reverse engraved ‘L.M. Hawes, 2nd Prize 1898’
Commemorative 1911 Coronation Medal with top bar Committee.
Matching miniature group along with bar for 1914 Star, all loose mounted for wear.
Harry Victor Sutherland Hawes would initially be employed as a Lad Clerk with the Great Western Railway at Acton in West London and by the time of the 1911 census would be working as a Clerk to the Scottish Widows Fund Life Assurance Society. Upon the outbreak of the Great War, he would enlist, and subsequently saw service as a Private (No. 2272) with the 1st Battalion, 28th London Regiment on the Western Front from 26th October 1914 and having been commissioned would later see service as a Second Lieutenant and later Lieutenant with the 2nd Lancers - Indian Army.
The 2nd Lancers had a rather uneventful time on the Western Front until the Battle of Cambrai on 1st December 1917 where the 2nd Lancers suffered its heaviest casualties of the war. The 2nd Lancers suffered over 100 casualties including their commanding officer Lieutenant-Colonel Turner. By April 1918 the 2nd Lancers moved to Egypt, serving briefly as part of the 6th Mounted Brigade, 1st Mounted Division until it moved to the 4th Cavalry Brigade, 10th Cavalry Division in August. The 2nd Lancers took part in closing stages of the Palestine Campaign where it could return to its traditional mounted role.
The 2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse) returned to India on 25th December 1920 and in 1921 amalgamated with the 4th Cavalry to form the 2nd/4th Cavalry which was redesignated the 2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse) in 1922.
