Birth & early life
Born in Liverpool.
Enlistment
Enlisted at Liverpool on the 28th of April 1855.
No other enlistment details apart from his trade as a carpenter are shown.
Service, discharge & pension
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 13th of August 1855.
Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Cahir on the 31st of December 1856. Regtl. No. 64.
Discharged "time expired," from Canterbury Depot on the 25th of August 1866.
Re-enlisted at Liverpool into the 11th Hussars as No. 943 on the 12th of January 1867.
Age: 30.
Height: 5' 7”.
Trade: Cooper.
Features: Fresh complexion. Hazel eyes. Brown hair.
Former service of 12 years 135 days in the 13th L.D. and the 3rd D.G. allowed to reckon towards pension rights - By Authority of the War Office, dated the 25th of May 1867.
Private to Corporal: 1st of February 1867.
Transferred back to the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Canterbury Cavalry Depot (as a Cpl.) on the 1st of July 1868, with the Regtl. number of 1003.
Corporal to Sergeant: on the 3rd of July 1868 and appointed to Troop Sgt. Major on the same day.
Reverted to Sgt. "at his own request," on the 29th of April 1869.
Discharged from the Curragh Camp, Ireland, on the 23rd of November 1875.
Served 21 years 7 days. In Turkey and the Crimea, 2 years 29 days, (sic.) In the East Indies, 8 years 146 days.
Conduct: "has been very good" - and was, when promoted, in possession of two Good Conduct badges and had he not been promoted, would now be in possession of four.
Twice entered in the Regimental Defaulter's book. Never tried by Court-martial.
Aged 41 years 5 months on discharge.
He later served in the Cumberland and Westmoreland Yeomanry.
Medals & commemorations
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.
Awarded the L. S. G. C. medal on the 17th of October 1874, with a gratuity of £5.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
To live, c/o. Mrs. Marrs, Castle Gate, Penrith.
Editor’s note: The 1901 Census shows Hosker aged 67, born Liverpool a “Coachman not Domestic” living in the parish of West Derby.
Death & burial
Photographs & illustrations
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