Next of Kin plaque: Gunner Daniel Hawkes, 51st Battery, 13th Field Artillery Brigade, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name 'DANIEL HAWKES'.

Born in Eidsvold, Queensland, Daniel Hawkes described himself as a labourer when he enlisted in the AIF in February 1915 at the age of twenty-one, although his father later stated that he had been a blacksmith and farmer. After initial training Hawkes was posted as a private, service number 1057, to the 6th Reinforcements for the 2nd Light Horse Regiment. He sailed from Brisbane in June 1915, aboard HMAT A7 Medic.

Hawkes joined his regiment on Gallipoli on 25 October, but was evacuated sick three weeks later. In May 1916, in Egypt, he was transferred to the artillery as a gunner and sent to England for training. In October he joined the 25th Field Artillery Brigade in France. In January the following year he was posted to the 51st Battery of the 13th Field Artillery Brigade. Hawkes received a shell wound to the skull near Beugny on 26 April 1918, during the retreat to the Hindenberg Line. He was evacuated to the 33rd (British) Field Ambulance at Beugny but died there on 27 April, a few hours after admission, without regaining consciousness. He is buried in the Red Cross Corner Cemetery, Beugny, near Bapaume.

This commemorative plaque was sent to his father, John Hawkes, in August 1922.