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Personal data

• Name HOSKER
• Initials R
• First name ROBERT
• Place of birth Widnes
• Country Lancashire, England
• Family Youngest son of Robert and Jane Hosker, of 37, Gladston St., Widnes, Lancashire; five brothers and sisters in 1900, James, Thomas, Elizabeth, May Gemimah and Martha
• Education Simm's Cross School
• Profession Apprentice plumber and gas fitter
• Extra info Commemorated in Liber Vitae of Talbot House; mentioned in the Communicants' Roll of Talbot House

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment September 1914, Widnes
• Service number 240561
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 1st/5th Bn. South Lancashire Regiment
• Division - Brigade 166th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 55th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Joined the 2nd Prince of Wales Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) at sixteen years of age; to France on 13 February 1915

Death

• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds in the neck, thigh and hand
• Date of death 29 July 1917
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XVI - I - 19

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