HOCKIN, Stewart Roy Luxmore
| Service Number: | 622 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 10th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Darlington, Co. Durham., 1894 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Lancing College near Shoreham, Sussex, England |
| Occupation: | Farm hand |
| Died: | Illness (Dysentery), At sea (HS Somali), 25 July 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" LONE PINE MEMORIAL-Panel 10. Buried at sea. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kings Park 10th Light Horse Regiment Memorial WA, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 622, 10th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Surada embarkation_ship_number: A52 public_note: '' | |
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| 17 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 622, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Surada, Fremantle | |
| 25 Jul 1915: | Involvement Trooper, 622, 10th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 622 awm_unit: 10 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-07-25 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Age on arrival in Australia 19
Enlistment date 23 October 1914.
Place of enlistment Guildford, Western Australia
Age at embarkation 20
Mother, Mrs C Luxmore Hockin, lived also at 7 Elmstead Road, Bexhill, Sussex, England.
Previous military service:
Served for 3 years in the Officer's Training Corps, Lancing College, Sussex, England.
10th Light Horse Regiment, 1st Reinforcement.
AWM Embarkation Roll number 10/15/2
Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A52 Surada on 17 February 1915.
His father was a lawyer holding an appointment in England. One brother older and one younger joined up at the beginning of the war and served on the Western Front till the end. [In London Regiments, both were returned home]
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli
Embarked Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 16 May 1915.
Diagnosed with diarrhoea, Gallipoli, 23 July 1915; died of disease (dysentery) aboard Hospital Ship 'Somali' ' off Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli 25 July 1915.
Sources
NAA: B2455, HOCKIN Stewart Ray Luxmore
Remembered on BEXHILL ON SEA , SUSSEX - WAR MEMORIAL
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
His forename registered at birth was Steuart and CWGC show it as Stuart.
Births Sep 1894 Hockin Steuart Roy L Darlington 10a 34.
He enlisted at Balingup, Western Australia.
He was 21 and the son of Charles Luxmoore Hockin and Catherine Mary Hockin, of 17, Devonshire Rd., Bexhill, Sussex.
He is remembered on the Bexhill-on Sea War Memorial which stands on the sea front. Also honoured there is Gunner Harold Ralph Shepherd MM of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Australian Field Artillery who died of wounds 17th August 1917.
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