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Private Robert Hawthorne

 

Robert Hawthorne was born on 30 May 1877 at Claddagh (Claudia), Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan, the second of eight children of farmer Johnstone Hawthorne and his wife Elizabeth (née Faulkner). By the time of the 1911 Census he was living at Claddagh with three of his siblings (their parents having died the previous year) and working on the family farm.

Hawthorne enlisted in the North Irish Horse between 19 March and 2 April 1913 (No.822). He was discharged on 3 September 1914, presumably on medical grounds, and saw no further military service during the war. After the war he unsuccessfully applied for a disability pension for 'VDH' (valvular disease of the heart).

On 10 August 1918 Hawthorne was convicted at Dublin and sentenced to two months' imprisonment for "carrying firearms viz. revolver and ammunition".

He died in Cavan Hospital on 19 September 1954.