Percy Clarence HOCKEY

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Service Number:	2028
Enlisted:	13 July 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	13th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Footscray, Victoria, Australia, 1895
Home Town:	Footscray, Maribyrnong, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Dairyman
Died:	Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, July 1959, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremation service held on 31 July 1959. Ashes not interred
Memorials:

13 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2028, 4th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
28 Jan 1916:	Involvement Private, 2028, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: ''
28 Jan 1916:	Embarked Private, 2028, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne
7 Jul 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 2nd Light Horse Regiment
7 Dec 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 13th Light Horse Regiment
24 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 2028, 13th Light Horse Regiment, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Son of Walter Morris George Hockey and Agnes Catherine Hockey nee Roper of Maldon Street, Footscray

Commenced return to Australia 20 May 1919 aboard HT Nestor disembarking on 2 July 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1920c Percy married Doris Grace Salisbury in Victoria