This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/TSj.2ACIB/124 Message Board Post: Can anyone help me trace relations of my grandfather .GILBERT E.( for Edward?) HOCKING , Sergeant, Royal Army Service Corps a newspaper account of whose funeral I have found among papers left by my mother.: BORN - about 1879 , native of St. Enoder, Cornwall YOUNGEST SON OF - Captain and Mrs Edward Hocking of Retew DIED - Friday, 22nd April, 1921 aged 42, at Military Hospital, Devonport. BURIED - on 26th April 1921 at Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport Cemetery, with full military honours. (Coffin draped in Union Jack conveyed on R.A.S.C.gun carriage from New Granby Barracks drawn by 4 black horses preceded by the band of the Royal Garrison Artillery (Citadel), 3 volleys fired over grave and "last Post"sounded), WIFE'S NAME - Charlotte (nee Peabody?). Irish. Died in Dublin15th Dec. 1957. FOUR CHILDREN - Adeline Phyllis (my mother), Leslie, Edward, Marian - all deceased. LIVED IN DUBLIN for 17 years before being transferred to DevonportT ten months before his death. Had apparently travelled frequently to Africa on military duties. MOURNERS AT FUNERAL included Capt. E HOCKING (father), Mr J. HOCKING (brother), Mrs A. KESSELL (sister), Mr W. TREMBATH and Mrs NORGROVE (brother-in-law and friend).. An ALAN TREMBATH was also frequently mentioned by my mother. Why he was accorded full military honours is not known to me. Any information would be appreciated. My e-mail address is gaughran@verbier.ch