Family :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.

Detail :

Hosking died from influenza abroad HMHS Karapara, a hospital ship.

The KARAPARA was built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle in 1914 for the British India Steam Navigation Co. She was a 7,117 gross ton ship, length 425ft x beam 55.6ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 15.5 knots. Originally ordered as the KARUNGA, she was registered on 21.8.1915 and entered service as Naval Hospital Ship No.17, with 341 beds and 200 medical staff. On 26.8.1915 she sailed for Gallipoli and operated in the Eastern Mediterranean, based at Alexandria. On 26.5.1917 she rescued 270 survivors from the hospital ship DOVER CASTLE and took them to Gibraltar. In 1919 she provided medical facilities at Istanbul during an exceptionally hot summer. Delivered to British India S.N.Co in 1920, she commenced sailings to East African ports as the KARAPARA. In the 1930s she transferred to the Straits (Malaya) route and also did some sailings to Port Sudan. She again became a hospital ship (No.36) with 338 beds and 123 medical staff in 1940, and served between the Red Sea and India. In April 1941, off Perim Island, Red Sea, en route to India, she was diverted to Aden to offload her patients, and then ordered to Tobruk to replace the hospital ship VITA which had been damaged by dive bombers. On her first voyage out of Tobruk, she was attacked by aircraft but escaped damage. However, on her second journey, she was bombed and set on fire at Tobruk, towed back into port, repaired and successfully sailed to Alexandria. She was eventually sold to the Steel Corporation of Bombay for scrapping on March 18th 1950. [Merchant Fleets, Vol.11, British India S.N.Co by Duncan Haws]

Masonic :

EA only. "Died 8th December 1918"

Discrepancies (Require checks, clarity or further research) :

Given name:
Fearnly vs Fearnley

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley