PRIVATE GEORGE HENRY HOGAN
AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY
12TH APRIL 1918 AGE 31
BURIED: PICQUIGNY BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE
It was one of Abraham Lincoln's maxims that, "What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree". And what was 'to be' for Margaret and Samuel Hogan? Their son, George, wounded on 11 April 1918 by a bomb from an aeroplane, died of his wounds in a Casualty Clearing Station the next day. The details are given in the Australian Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau Files, "bomb wounds buttock punctuating abdomen arm right".