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First Name: George Walter Last Name: HOSKINS
Date of Death: 10/09/1914 Lived/Born In: King's Cross
Rank: Private Unit: Royal Fusiliers4
Memorial Site: La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial, France

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Age-25

SDGW-HOSKIN

73, Northdown Street, King's Cross

 

After the opening battles of the war at Mons on 23rd August, 1914 and Le Cateau on 26th August, the British Army (BEF), in conjunction with the French Army, began a retreat that took them all the way back to the River Marne, 200 miles to the south. With the Germans in hot pursuit they were forced to fight a series of rear guard actions as they fell back in extremely hot weather. The Great Retreat, as it became known, came to an end on 5th September, 1914 when the allied forces attacked along the River Marne and drove the Germans back to the River Aisne.

On 10th September, 1914, the 4th Royal Fusiliers battalion of 9 Brigade, 3rd Division made contact with the Germans at Veuilly. A sharp engagement followed in which five men from 4th Royal Fusiliers were killed and another 29 wounded. One of those who died was George Hoskins.

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