Keith Bowyer HOCKING [14772]

  General Notes:

1891 SA Birtth HOCKING Keith Bowyer, Martin Charles HOCKING, Amy Bowyer MILDRED Adelaide 481/461

HOCKING Keith Bowyer, VIC Death UNKNOWN, Unknown (Unknown), Reg. year 1967 Reg. no 6938

The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA : 1867 - 1922) Thu 6 May 1915
PERSONAL NEWS.
On Wednesday evening Mr. W.S. Padman gave a dinner to Mr. Keith Bowyer Hocking, who is a member of the Third Expeditionary Force for the front. Mr. F. Langlois, on behalf of a number of the staff of Messrs. Goode. Durrant, & Co., presented the guest with a gold-mounted tobacco pouch, and expressed the wish that before long they would be able to say to him "And now you're coming home again."

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) Tue 19 Sep 1916
ON ACTIVE SERVICE:
A HOT BATTLE.
Private Keith Bowyer Hocking writes:- "At last we have all had what we have been looking for for such a long time. We have just come out of a real hot battle, and I don't think that, now we have been through it, we are looking for the same thing again for some time. It is Hell with a big H. and the sights we see are awful, but still I came out of it all right undamaged, and now I've had some decent tucker and a good sleep I am feeling tres bon. I thought I would be in a horrible funk, but I was surprised to find I was not even nervous till I had been carrying for about 15 hours without a break. Then I was just going into a dugout for another case when a shell burst so close as to spread earth all over me and knocked me back with the force of the explosion, and then I did feel shaky for some time. Dave Evans (son of Dr. Evans, Hindmarsh) stopped one through the leg while carrying with me, but it was a good clean one, and should not worry him much."
[We have received for publication many copies of the official letter expressing the sympathy of the King and Queen sent to relations of soldiers who have been killed in action or died as the result of wounds or sickness. As the same form of letter or telegram is sent in every instance, there is no occasion to publish it in connection with individual cases]

Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931) Sat 4 Aug 1917
Personal:
News was received-, by mail from "England on Wednesday that Pte. Keith Bowyer Hocking had been awarded the Military Medal. Pte. Hocking, who enlisted two and a half yeans ago, and who served in Egypt, has been in France for a year and three months, is the son of Mr. M. C. Hocking," the well-known Adelaide journalist, and a great-grandson of the late Rev. Henry Cheetham, a Waterloo veteran.

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) Sat 18 Jan 1919
Personal:
A cablegram from London received on Friday states that Cadet Keith Bowyer Hocking, M.M., has been awarded a commission as lieutenant. For some months Lieutenant Hocking has been in at officers' training school at Kinnel Park, Rhyl, North Wales.

Keith married Gladys Vera NORTH [14807] [MRIN: 5448], daughter of Ernest Hnery NORTH [14813] and Living, on 17 Dec 1917 in Christ Church, North Adelaide, South Australia. (Gladys Vera NORTH [14807] was born on 17 Feb 1896 in North Adelaide, South Australia and died in 1965 in VIC, Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

1921 289/892 SA Marriage HOCKING Keith Bowyer, NORTH Gladys Vera, Adelaide

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) Sat 19 Feb 1921 Page 8
Engagement Notice:
NORTH-HOCKING. The engagement is announced of Gladys Vera, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. North, Kensington-road, Marryitville, to Lieutenant Keith Bowyer Hocking, M.M. (A.LF.), only son of Mr. M. C. Hocking, Le fevre-terrace, North Adelaide.

The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929) Mon 13 Mar 1922
Marriage Notice:
HOCKING-NORTH. On the 17th December, 1921, at Christ Church, N.A. by Canon Jose, Keith Bowyer, son of Mr. and late Mrs. M. C. Hocking, N.A., to Gladys Vera, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. North, Marryatville.