Oscar Roy HOOKWAY MID

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Service Number:	167
Enlisted:	17 August 1914, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	11th Field Ambulance
Born:	Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 1891
Home Town:	Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Bayswater, Western Australia, 9 July 1959, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Cremated and ashes scattered over a garden at Karrakatta Cemetery
Memorials:

17 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 167, 3rd Field Ambulance, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
24 Aug 1914:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3rd Field Ambulance, Prior to embarking
2 Nov 1914:	Embarked Sergeant, 167, 3rd Field Ambulance, HMAT Medic, Fremantle
2 Nov 1914:	Involvement Sergeant, 167, 3rd Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: ''
26 Aug 1915:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, London Gazette on 5 November 1915, page 11003, position 16 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 January 1916, page 157, position 14
18 Nov 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sergeant, 11th Field Ambulance
29 Oct 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 167, 11th Field Ambulance, Discharged at the 5th Military District as medically unfit

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Son of George Hookway and Jemima Hookway of Stirling Street, Fremantle, WA formerly of Newcastle, NSW

Commenced return to Australia on 22 July 1917

Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British Warm Medal, Victory Medal

During 1918c Oscar married Maggie Marshall in Perth, WA

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