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• Name HOCKADAY
• Initials SR
• First name SYDNEY REGINALD
• Place of birth Woollahra
• Country New South Wales, Australia
• Last residence Lydney, England
• Family Son of James Henry and Susan Hockaday, of Sydney, New South Wales. He was adopted in 1903 in Lydney, Bledisloe, Gloucestershire, England. Informally adopted by Frank Step Hockaday and Jane Wansbrough at Highbury, Lydney, Gloucestershire, after the death of his natural parents; a brother, Percy;
• Education Monmouth Grammar School; University of Birmingham from 1911 to 1914 (mining, geology, engineering, mathematics, physics and chemistry)
• Profession Student

Military service

• Rank Captain
• Regiment and unit 1st/2nd Bn. Monmouthshire Regiment
• Division - Brigade Pioneers
• Army - Corps - Division 29th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Lt temp Capt, 1915. 2nd Lt. (temp. Capt.) S. R. Hockaday to be Lt. (temp. Capt.), with precedence as from 5th May 1915. 25th Sept. 1915; Wounded and gassed at the second battle of Ypres, May 2nd, 1915; to France on 1 February 1915

Death

• Wounded 30 August, Piccadilly trench, south of Potijze
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds shoulder and chest, in n°10 CCS
• Date of death 2 September 1916
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery IX - B - 8

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