Notts Free Press, 10th May 1918
HOCKING J.
Joseph Hocking
Private 27551
10th Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Notts Free Press, 10th May 1918
Joseph Hocking died on Wednesday 17 April 1918, Age 21, and was remembered on the TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born c1897 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 elder brother, Charles Hocking, is also remembered on the Stanton Hill War Memorial.
Notts Free Press, 10th May 1918
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
Royal Warwickshire Regiment’
HOCKING
Joseph. Born Shipley, Notts, enlisted
Mansfield (resides Newark, Notts). 10th Bn.,
Royal Warwickshire Regt. Private
27551, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 17th April 1918. Formerly
4128 Notts & Derbys Regt.
Research by Heather Faulkes
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