GRAEME HOSKEN
Graeme Hosken is the HSIE Head Teacher at Dubbo School of Distance Education. He began researching WWI Diggers in the 1990s when he was a member of the Byrock Tidy Towns Committee (Winner NSW Tidy Town 1998).
The techniques of researching soldiers was then transferred across to his history classes, and his students have researched over 150 Diggers in the years since. In 2000 he was invited by John Laffin to be the Education Officer on the foundation committee of the FFFAIF. In 2002 he became FFFAIF Secretary and is presently a Committee member and Editor of DIGGER, the quarterly magazine of the FFFAIF. Graeme has authored or co-authored the following books: ‘Dear Da’ (Second Edition, 1995), ‘Four Australians at War’ (1996), ‘digging for Diggers’ (2002) and ‘Wellington’s Finest’ (2005).
His main interest is researching the experiences of individual soldiers, through their service records, diaries, letters and unit histories. He believes that “every soldier has a story to tell” and is always on the lookout for soldiers’ names on memorials, cemetery headstones and family trees.
