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  • HOSKER
  • R
  • ROBERT
  • Widnes
  • Lancashire, England
  • 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
  • Simm's Cross School
  • Apprentice plumber and gas fitter
  • Commemorated in Liber Vitae of Talbot House; mentioned in the Communicants' Roll of Talbot House

Military service

  • September 1914, Widnes
  • 240561
  • Private
  • 1st/5th Bn. South Lancashire Regiment
  • 166th Brigade
  • 55th Division
  • B.E.F.
  • Joined the 2nd Prince of Wales Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) at sixteen years of age; to France on 13 February 1915

Death

  • Died of shrapnel wounds in the neck, thigh and hand
  • 29 July 1917
  • 22
  • XVI - I - 19

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