Richard Ernest HOSKING

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HOSKING, Richard Ernest

Service Number:	438859
Enlisted:	17 December 1943, Melbourne, VIC
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 12 August 1915
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Elwood Central School, Victoria, Australia,
Occupation:	Gun and Mountings Viewer/Inspector Engineer (Ordnance Factory)
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World War 2 Service

17 Dec 1943:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 438859
17 Dec 1943:	Enlisted Melbourne, VIC
17 Dec 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 438859
25 Mar 1944:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 438859, embarked Brisbane for Vancouver, Canada
20 Jan 1945:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 438859, embarked Canada for Brisbane on board Hollandia
10 Oct 1945:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Flight Sergeant Richard Ernest Hosking (Service No:438859) enlisted in the RAAF at No 1 Recruiting Centre Melbourne on 17 December 1943 as an Aircraftman II and was a Leading Aircraftman when he embarked from Brisbane for Vancouver, Canada on 25 March 1944. Promoted to Sergeant on 4 December 1944, Sgt Hosking was attached to No 3 RCAF Station Winnipeg and No 2 Wireless School Calgary before embarking from Canada for Brisbane on 20 January 1945 on board the Hollandia. Promoted to Flight Sergeant on 4 June 1945 - mustered as Air Gunner - he was attached to Air Gunnery School (AGS) West Sale at Discharge on 10 October 1945.

Richard was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1915, youngest of five children of Peter Hosking (b1873 at Mt Egerton, Moorabool, Victoria) and Evelin Ward Lott (b1884 at Branxholme, Victoria). Peter (a Teleoperator) and Evelin married in 1905 in Melbourne, and lived there and in Adelaide, South Australia and Sydney, NSW, settling by 1917 in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Peter worked as a Mechanic.

Richard started work as an Apprentice Fitter and Turner with Fletcher Machine Shops, and was a Gun and Mountings Inspector with Commonwealth Ordnance Factory in 1943 when he enlisted in the RAAF. In 1945 Richard married Patricia Josephine Nixon O'Brien (b1921 in Melbourne, Victoria) - they had separated by 1954 and Richard moved to Western Australia where, in 1958 he was working as a Farm Hand in Morowa.

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