James Peter Wallace HOGG MC, MID*

HOGG, James Peter Wallace

Service Numbers: 74, VX151844
Enlisted: 19 February 1915
Last Rank: Captain
Last Unit: 19th Small Ships Company
Born: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 April 1893
Home Town: Surrey Hills, Boroondara, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Seaman
Died: Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, August 1956, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Box Hill General Cemetery, Victoria
Site C, Section SS, Grave 0012. Interred on 11 August 1956
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World War 1 Service

19 Feb 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 74, 21st Infantry Battalion
10 May 1915: Embarked Private, 74, 21st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
10 May 1915: Involvement Private, 74, 21st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
1 Nov 1915: Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 21st Infantry Battalion
13 Dec 1915: Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 21st Infantry Battalion
19 Apr 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 6th Light Trench Mortar Battery, From 21st Battalion
7 Jul 1916: Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 6th Light Trench Mortar Battery
25 May 1917: Promoted AIF WW1, Captain, 6th Light Trench Mortar Battery
1 Jun 1917: Honoured Mention in Dispatches, London Gazette on 1 June 1917, page 5422, position 8 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 October 1917, page 2624, position 20
28 Dec 1917: Honoured Mention in Dispatches, London Gazette on 28 December 1917, page 13567, position 139 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 April 1918, page 844, position 166
3 Jun 1918: Honoured Military Cross, London Gazette on 3 June 1918, page 6473, position 51 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 7 November 1918, page 2111, position 69
6 Jun 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Captain, 6th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

World War 2 Service

15 Jun 1945: Enlisted VX151844
28 Nov 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Captain, VX151844, 19th Small Ships Company

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Thomas Hogg and Florence Knowles Hogg nee Miller of 'Kinnour',Surrey Hills, Victoria

Returned to Australia on 7 April 1919 aboard HT Orca

Medals: Military Cross, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1944c James married Alison Marion Davidson in Victoria