Notts Free Press, 3rd May 1918
HOCKING C. Pte
Charles Hocking
Private 240325
1st/5th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment
Notts Free Press, 3rd May 1918
Charles Hocking died on 26th March 1918, aged 25 years, and was remembered on the TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born c1892 at Meden Bank, Stanton Hill, the son of William Richard and Emma Hocking, who later lived at 16 Longden Terrace, Stanton Hill, Notts. William Richard Hocking was a native of Cornwall, and his occupation at the time of the 1901 census was Underground Deputy in the local coal mine.
His younger brother, Joseph Hocking, is also remembered on the Stanton Hill War Memorial.
Notts Free Press, 3rd May 1918
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
York & Lancaster Regiment’
HOCKING
Charles. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts,
enlisted Birdwell, Barnsley. 1/5th (T.F.) Bn.,York
& Lancaster Regt Private 240325,
Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 26th March 1918.
Research by Heather Faulkes
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