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  • Woollahra
  • New South Wales, Australia
  • Lydney, England
  • Son of James Henry and Susan Hockaday, of Sydney, New South Wales. He was adopted in 1903 in Lydney, Bledisloe, Gloucestershire, England. Informally adopted by Frank Step Hockaday and Jane Wansbrough at Highbury, Lydney, Gloucestershire, after the death of his natural parents; a brother, Percy;
  • Monmouth Grammar School; University of Birmingham from 1911 to 1914 (mining, geology, engineering, mathematics, physics and chemistry)
  • Student

Military service

  • Captain
  • 1st/2nd Bn. Monmouthshire Regiment
  • Lt temp Capt, 1915. 2nd Lt. (temp. Capt.) S. R. Hockaday to be Lt. (temp. Capt.), with precedence as from 5th May 1915. 25th Sept. 1915; Wounded and gassed at the second battle of Ypres, May 2nd, 1915; to France on 1 February 1915

Death

  • 30 August, Piccadilly trench, south of Potijze
  • Died of shell wounds shoulder and chest, in n°10 CCS
  • 24
  • IX - B - 8

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