DELVILLE WOOD

LONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE

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BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY

Roeux, Pas-de-Calais, France

Alfred Stanley HOSKING

Grave III.A.50.

Son of Alf F and Letitia Hosking, of St Leonards, Muizenberg, Cape Province. Born at Cape Town (Source : C.W.G.C.).

Killed in action on the 12th April 1917 in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 1st SAI lost 2 officers and 203 men.