Ronald Arthur HOCKING

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Service Number:	39161
Enlisted:	15 April 1941
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Thebarton, South Australia, 5 May 1919
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Accidental, Milingimbi Island, Milingimbi Island, Northern Territory, Australia, 25 September 1943, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Adelaide River War Cemetery, NT C.B.10., Adelaide River War Cemetery, Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia
Memorials:	Adelaide River 31 Beaufighter Squadron Memorial Plaque, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Milingimbi War Memorial

15 Apr 1941:	Involvement Flying Officer, 39161
15 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Adelaide
15 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 39161
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Beaufighter A19-116 of Number 31 Squadron RAAF crashed near Millingimbi, NT killing all on board:

Flying Officer Donald Gordon Taylor 406738 - Son of Norman Gordon and Frances Taylor & Husband of Doreen Lydia Taylor of Mount Lawley, WA

Flying Officer Ronald Arthur Hocking 39161 - Son of William Arthur and Clara May Hocking & Husband of Olive Lavinia Hocking of Rose Park, SA

Corporal John Ronald Gorton 19218 - Son of John Alfred and Emily Kate Gorton of East Malvern, Victoria

Leading Aircraftman Nathaniel Ross Beggs 40978 - Son of Mr and Mrs C. L. Beggs of Tunstall, Victoria