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  • HOCKLEY
  • RR
  • RUPERT REGINALD
  • Maryborough
  • Brisbane, Australia
  • Son of James and Elizabeth Hockley (nee Skinnerty); an older brother James, an older sister Olive and a younger sister Norma;
  • Maryborough Grammar School

Military service

  • Major
  • D S O "For consistent good service and devotion to duty as second in command of the Pioneer Bn. Period October 1916 to February 1917. During the operations on the SOMME he has shown himself to be a courageous and capable officer, is most zealous and a good organizer."
  • 2nd Bn. Australian Pioneers
  • 2nd Australian Division
  • A.I.F.
  • 31st - Battalion -
  • Served in the Wide Bay Infantry for 19 years and held the rank of captain prior to joining the AIF; promoted major 18 October 1915 (Egypt); to France on 26 March 1916;

Death

  • 19 September, shell explosion in the garden of Swan Chateau, hdq of the 2nd Pioneers, Ypres;
  • Died of shrapnel wounds back penetrating chest, in n°2 Canadian CCS
  • 20 September 1917
  • 39
  • XXIV - H - 1

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