HOSKINS, George Thomas
| Service Number: | 3388 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia, 20 February 1888 |
| Home Town: | Lithgow, Lithgow, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Carpenter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 13 October 1917, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Lithgow War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3388, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3388, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Anchises, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
George Thomas HOSKINS (Service Number 3388) was born in Lithgow on 20th February 1888. He joined the NSW Government Railways Permanent Way Branch as a temporary ‘linker-in’ on the Sydney to Sydenham widening work in September 1912. [More clearance was required around the tracks for the wider electric train carriages.] he resigned a month later. In February 1915, he joined the Tramways in Sydney as a labourer. From March to June inclusive in 1916 he was stood down owing to shortage of material. Six months after resuming work, in December 1916, he enlisted in the AIF in Sydney. He gave his ‘trade or calling’ on enlistment as ‘carpenter’.
He embarked from Sydney in January 1917 with reinforcements. He landed in England in March and was sent to France in June. In July and August he was in hospital suffering from ‘piles’ and psoriasis, On 25th August was ‘taken on strength’ by the 45th Battalion ‘in the field’.
On 13th October 1917 he was killed in action at Broodseinde, Belgium. He was buried about 1½ miles NE of Zonnebeke. After the war his remains were exhumed and re-interred in the Oostaverne Wood Cemetery, Wytschaete, 1¾ miles N of Messines.
A war pension was granted to his widowed mother.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
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