Hoskyns-Abrahall, CH
(1871 - 1915)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
23rd July 1871
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1884 - 1889
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
Rosebank, Tavistock
REGIMENT
Royal Marine Light Infantry
FINAL RANK:
Major
DATE OF DEATH:
7th May 1915
AGE AT DEATH:
43
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Gallipoli
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Portsmouth Naval Memorial 9.
Major Christopher Henry Hoskyns-Abrahall
Born on July 23rd 1871, Christopher was the youngest of three children of James Hoskyns-Abrahall, a clerk in the War Office, and his wife, Ellen. He came to Dulwich in the summer of 1884, two years after his elder brother, John, had left and was at the College for the next five years, leaving in the summer of 1889 whilst a member of the Modern Remove. A year after his departure he joined the Royal Marine Light Infantry, eventually being promoted to the rank of Major in 1910. In 1897 he had married Alice Allen at Woolwich, and they went on to have three children before she unfortunately passed away in 1904. In 1912 he retired from the military, and the following year he and his three children emigrated to Winchester, Western Australia, where he had purchased a farm.
The outbreak of war in the summer of 1914 saw Christopher return to active service, and he was assigned to the 10th Battalion of the Royal Marine Brigade. The following year he was sent to Gallipoli, where he was seriously wounded, and died as a result on May 7th 1915. He was survived by his three children, although one of them, also named Christopher, was killed in an aeroplane crash in December 1917, while serving in the Australian Forces.
