HOSKINGS, Robert Millington
| Service Number: | 2564 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 September 1916, Enlisted at Sydney , NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 39th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia, 29 July 1891 |
| Home Town: | Mount Morgan, Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Boys State School, Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Tram Conductor |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 10 September 1918, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Cerisy-Gailly French National Cemetery, France Plot 1, Row E, Grave 20 Headstone inscription reads: We miss you most who loved you best, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2564, 39th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Sydney , NSW | |
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| 9 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 2564, 39th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 2564, 39th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 7 Jun 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2564, 39th Infantry Battalion, Gassed |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Robert Polglace Hoskings and Elizabeth Hoskings nee Millington of Mount Morgan, QLD.
Brother of John Hoskings, Wiilliam Hoskings and Mary Hoskings
Husband of Ellen Riley Hoskings nee O'Reilly of 41 Elizabeth Street, Paddington, NSW. Robert and Ellen married during 1914c in Chatswood, NSW. Parents of Irene G. Hoskings and Elinor Hoskings
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Robert Millington HOSKINGS (Service Number 2564) was born at Mount Morgan, Qld., on 29th July 1891. He ‘had a host of friends in Mount Morgan, particularly among football enthusiasts’; (Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, 25th September 1918, page 7) He married Ellen O’Reilly in Sydney in 1914.
He joined the Tramways in Sydney in December 1914 as a conductor. In October 1916 he was released from duty to enlist in the AIF in Sydney.
He embarked from Sydney with reinforcements in November 1916. He landed in England in January 1917, was sent to France in April, and ‘taken on strength’ by the 39th Battalion. He was gssed in June. He spent two months in hospital and rest camp in France before re-joining his unit on 1st September. In February 1918 he accidentally broke his left forearm. He was evacuated to England. He returned to France re-joining his unit on 10th May.
On 10th September 1918 he was killed in action. He was buried in Buire Communal Cemetery Extension, near Tincourt, 4½ miles E of Péronne. As part of the concentration of graves after the war his remains were exhumed and re-interred in Cerisy Gailly French National Cemetery, four miles SW of Bray-sur-Somme, France.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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