Source: British Home Children Who Died in the First World War.
Family Search: When Private Frederick William Hawes was born on 2 May 1896, in Christ Church Spitalfields, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Percy Walter Hawes, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Taylor, was 35. He immigrated to Quebec City, Quebec, Canada in 1910. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as farmer in Bothwell, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 9 August 1918, in Marcelcave, Somme, France, at the age of 22, and was buried in Crouy, Somme, France.
This man, a British Home Child, arrived in Canada on 16 May 1910 at Quebec City. He went to the Annie McPherson Home in Stratford, Ontario. He lived in Bothwell, Ontario in 1916 and worked on a farm when he enlisted with the 186th Battalion on 29 February 1916 with the regimental number of 880125.
He was transported with the 186th Battalion to England, arriving in Liverpool on 7 April 1917, where it was broken up as replacements for active combat units. On 26 September 1917, he was transferred to the 18th Battalion and arrived “in the field” with the Battalion on 2 October 1917.
He was wounded by a gas shell taking him out of action from 14 November 1917 to 2 May 1918.
He was wounded on 8 August 1918 with a GSW to his back and he died of his wounds the next day at No. 5 Casualty Clearing Station.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 