The Archive · 1936

Chefoo Boy Killed in Abyssinia

Dr. R. W. Hockman Among First Civil'an Casualties One of the first civilian casualties the Ethiopian hostilities was a [former pupil of the China Inland Mission School at Chefoo, reports from Addis Ababa reveal. He " was De. Robert W. Hockma: ug an unexploded Italian bomb at Daggah Bur. Dr. Bookman was only }28 "years old and was medical missionary in charge of American Red [Cross Unit No. 1 on the Ogaden front.

Dr. Hockman was born in 1907 in China, where his father, Dr. William Hockman, was a missionary for Dr. Robert W.

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