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| Trooper Stewart Roy Luxmoore HOCKIN (622) | |
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C Squadron, 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Date of birth: 2nd July 1894 Date of death: 25th July 1915 Died aged 21 Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial Panel 10 |
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| Stewart Roy Luxmoore Hockin was born at Darlington, County Durham on the 2nd of July 1894 the second son of Charles Luxmoore Hockin, a lawyer, and Catherine Mary (nee Brabant) Luxmoore Hockin of 17 Devonshire Road, Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex. He was christened at Darlington on the 11th of August 1894. He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Seconds House from January 1909 to July 1911 and where he was a member of the Officer Training Corps. He decided to emigrate to Australia to work in farming and boarded the SS "Medic" at Liverpool on the 11th of September 1913 bound for Albany in Western Australia. On his arrival there he worked as a farm hand at Bunbury. Following the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Australian Light Horse at Claremont Camp, Guildford in Western Australia on the 23rd of October 1914. On his enlistment it was recorded that he was 20 years and 3 months old, 5 feet ten inches tall with blue eyes and fair hair. He was posted for training as a reinforcement. On the 17th of February 1915 he embarked at Freemantle for service in Egypt on board the HMAT “Surada”. After a short period in Egypt he embarked at Alexandria bound for Gallipoli on the 16th of May 1915. He was evacuated from Anzac at Gallipoli on the 23rd of July 1915 suffering from diarrhoea and was taken on board the Hospital Ship "Somali” which was anchored off Gaba Tepe. He died of dysentery on board the ship two days later and was buried at sea. A friend from Lancing wrote:- "The last message the writer saw from him was a word to his mother written on a yellow scrap of gummed paper which he had torn from a bully beef tin; he wrote cheerily begging her not to be anxious." He is commemorated on the war memorial at Bexhill-on-Sea. |
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