PRIVATE ARCHIBALD GRAY HOSKING
26TH BTTN AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY
20TH MAY 1917 AGE 20
BURIED: ST SEVER COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN, FRANCE
Archibald Hosking was a sheep grazier and wheelwright in Queensland. Despite believing that he would not return, Archibald Hosking was a volunteer, there was no conscription in Australia. He enlisted on 26 April 1916, embarked for France on 7 September 1916 and died of wounds in a base hospital in Rouen on 20 May 1917.