Phil Hosking

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Phil Hosking
Personal information
Full name Thornton Randall Philip Hosking
Date of birth(1894-05-04)4 May 1894
Place of birth Albert Park, Victoria
Date of death 6 August 1949(1949-08-06) (aged 55)
Place of death Caulfield South, Victoria
Height 179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1913 Melbourne 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1913.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Thornton Randall Philip Hosking (4 May 1894 - 6 August 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [1]

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Family

The son of John Andrew Hosking (1860-1936), [2] and Sarah Letitia Hosking (1863-1928), née Pearson, [3] [4] Thornton Randall Philip Hosking was born at Albert Park, Victoria on 4 May 1894.

Two of his brothers, Albert Jeffrey Hosking (1885-1953), [5] and John Bruce "Jack" Hosking (1898-1917), [6] also served in the AIF. Jack died of the wounds he received in action, in France, on 22 July 1917.

He married Ettie Ruby Meade Menere (1891-1956), later Mrs. Bruce Duane, on 13 August 1913. They had one son. Following a divorce, he married Mona Gwenn Bromley Lloyd (1903-1984), later Mrs. Charles Trevor Turner, in 1939.

The Australian Training Units Team: 28 October 1916. Phil Hosking is the third man (second player) from the left, in the back row. Australian Training Units Football Team (28 October 1916).tif
The Australian Training Units Team: 28 October 1916. Phil Hosking is the third man (second player) from the left, in the back row.

Football

Recruited from South Yarra, he played of First XVIII for Melbourne, against Collingwood, at the MCG, on 26 April 1913.

Military service

He served overseas with the First AIF: and, while in England, took part in the Pioneer Exhibition Game, at Queen's Club, West Kensington, on 28 October 1916.

Death

He died at his residence in South Caulfield on 6 August 1949. [8]

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