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Corporal Charles Horne Stirling Hockin

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 3106
Age: 37
Rank: Corporal
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Division: F Division
Birth: September 3, 1859 England
Enlistment: October 2, 1894
Death: May 29, 1897 Minichinas Hills
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Corporal Hockin was originally from England and was previously a Captain with the Imperial Service (44th Essex Regiment) before joining the NWMP. He was promoted to Corporal April 9, 1896. Corporal Hockin was killed while attempting to apprehend the murderer of Sergeant Colebrook at Minichinas Hills near Duck Lake, Northwest Territories. There is a street named after Corporal Hockin at Depot.

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Page 23 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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