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HOSKIN, James Coutts
Service Number: | 2825 |
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Enlisted: | 30 October 1916 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 43rd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Hindmarsh, South Australia, 29 November 1899 |
Home Town: | Solomontown, Port Pirie, South Australia |
Schooling: | Hindmarsh School, South Australia |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Killed in Action, France, 22 August 1918, aged 18 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
30 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private | |
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16 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 2825, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
16 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 2825, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Adelaide | |
Date unknown: | Wounded 2825, 43rd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
Private J. C. HOSKIN (June) was killed in action in France on August 22. He sailed from the Outer Harbor on December 16, 1916, with reinforcements of the 43rd Battalion. He was reported gassed in June, and rejoined his battalion shortly before his death. He was employed on a farm at Solomontown before enlisting. - AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS. (1918, September 28). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), p. 38.
His Brother Lance Corporal William Alexander Hoskin of the 50th Battalion returned to Australia in July 1917