Participant Info

Surname

Hocking

First Name

Francis

Initial

A W

Service Number

2609

Rank

sergeant

Unit Served

55th Battalion, late 3rd Battalion

Service Record

Rabaul, Gallipoli, Egypt, France

Enlistment Date

1914

Enlistment Month

August 11

Embarkation Year

1915

Embarkation Month

August 9

Date of Death

1917

Month of Death

February 4

Death Category

DOW

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 55, image page 56

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

Francis J. and Janet Hocking

Parental Address

23 The Boulevard, Lewisham

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

born at Leichhardt, May 22, 1891, educated Ashfield Superior Public School, commercial traveller, enlisted August 9, 1914, embarked August 18, 1914.War service: Rabaul (1st Tropical Force), wounded, invalided to Australia February 1915, re-enlisted, June