Hawthorn Family Korea & UN medal KIA Duke of Wellington Regt & 1914/15 Trio WIA 9th Scottish Rifles Somme

Korea Medal named 22659591 PTE J HAWTHORN DWR & UN Korea Medal unnamed as issued. Korea Medal has number & rank officially corrected. Sold together with a photograph of the recipient’s gravestone and a copy of the autopsy report giving details of his wound.

1914-15 Star , British War & Victory Medals all named 16421 PTE J HAWTHORN SCO RIF.
John Hawthorn, known as ‘Jack’, was born on 5th Mar 1934 at Gateshead, Durham. Hawthorn’s mother, Rose Battey, had married William Robson Hawthorn in 1914. The younger Hawthorn was in the MMG Platoon of ‘D’ Company and was thus in the most forward position of the battalion which was overrun by Chinese infantry and the occupants killed by hand grenades and ‘Burp’ machine-gun fire. He was one of the 17 soldiers of the Battalion who died in action that night and his grave is in the UN Cemetery, Pusan.

John Hawthorn was grand-uncle to John Hawthorn, killed on the Hook. He was born in Newton Hamilton, County Armagh in 1871 and married Margaret Sleith in the Mount Norris Presbyterian Church, Armagh, in Apr 1892. Posted to the 9th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), he landed in France on 12th May 1915 as part of 28th Brigade, 9 Scottish Division and on 24th April 1916 was wounded in actions leading up to the Battle of the Somme. He was then transferred to the 43rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, number 101048 and then to the Labour Corps, number 417823.