HOSKIN, James Thomas
| Service Number: | 1854 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 37th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | 1888, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Violet Town, Strathbogie, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Violet Town State School |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | 1973, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Euroa Telegraph Park, Violet Town Honour Roll WW1, Violet Town Primary School Honour Roll, Violet Town St Dunstan's Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 26 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1 | |
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| 16 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 1854, 37th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 16 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 1854, 37th Infantry Battalion, RMS Orontes, Melbourne |
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HOSKIN James Thomas 1854 PTE
37th Battalion
1888-1973
There were two Hoskin cousins for whom trees were planted in the Violet Town Memorial Avenue – the older, James Thomas Hoskin, was born in 1888, the eldest son of William Archelaus Hoskin (1858-1934) and his wife Jane (née Thompson) born in 1866. They lived in Violet Town.
James Thomas Hoskin 1888-1973
William Edward Hoskin 1890-
John Abraham Hoskin 1893-1894
Edgar Irving Hoskin 1895-1962
Jane Tryphena Hoskin 1898-
Florence Beatrice Hoskin 1901-
James known as Jim, was the eldest of five surviving children; he was working as a labourer when he enlisted on 26 June 1916 at the age of 28 years.
His pre-war training had been with the 16th light Horse Regiment for three years.
In August, after initial training at Seymour he embarked on Orontes for England where, after further training he was taken on strength of the 37th Battalion.
In November he proceeded to France but was admitted soon afterwards to an AFA suffering from diarrhoea. In a week he was well enough to be discharged to duty and in January was detached for duty with the 8th Corps Railway Construction. A month later he re-joined the 37th Battalion. The following July Jim was gassed and admitted to the Military Hospital at Devonport suffering from pleuro-pneumonia.
On 21 December he returned to Australia aboard Persic for discharge the following March.
After the war he married Maude Slade with whom he had two daughters. Maud left him and he reared the girls in Benalla while working as a labourer. One of his daughters Hilda, died in child birth leaving Jim with a young family to tend. The other daughter, Phyllis trained as a nurse in Melbourne. Jim died in 1973 aged 86 at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital.
Maude had predeceased him some years earlier Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Tree No 22 – a Eucalypt – was planted in 1817 by Mr T Hoskin.
On 25 may 2013 it was still standing.
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