Series 03: Geoffrey Oswald Hawkins - sketches, photographs and medals, 1885-1923.

PXA 794
R 885

series

1885-1923

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Photographs, Ephemera, Medals

152222

Drawings - ca. 80 pen & ink, pencil and watercolour sketches in a pocket sketchbook; 8 pen & ink and watercolour sketches ; 24.5 x 29 cm. or smaller - 5 watercolour designs for cards
Photographs - 9 x 14 cm. or smaller - 4 silver gelatin photoprints
Ephemera - 10 x 16.3 cm. - programme
Objects - 3 World War I medals

Geoffery Hawkins was born in 1870. He practised as an architect in Perth until 1915 when he enlisted in the A.I.F. He fought on the Western Front from 1916-1918. In 1919 he was sent to Gallipoli as Survey Officer in the War Graves Commission. He returned to Australia in the summer of 1920.

PXA 754
Sketches and photographs (PXA 754)
1. Sketch book, 1885-. Includes views of Inglewood, animals and architectural details.
2-9. Sketches, ca. 1887. Include bush camps, a seascape and a horse.
10-15. Designs for Christmas and New Year cards with an envelope, ca. 1889. Some by Norman H. Hawkins.
16-19. Photographs: Geoff Hawkins and Roy at Anzac, 1920; Turkish Dead, 1914-18; Group of soldiers at Australian Training Camp, c.1915.
20. Souvenir programme of a smoko on board the troop ship T.S.S. Demosthenes, 1915.

R 885
World War I medals with receipts (dated 1923)
Item 1. British War Medal
Item 2. 1914 Star
Item 3. Victory Medal.

Access via appointment - Applies to R 885

See MLMSS 5424 and MLMSS 5424 Add-on 2143 for the papers of G.O. Hawkins.