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3 unusual facts about William Hodgkinson


William Hodgkinson

Hodgkinson left the expedition before it ended in disaster at Cooper Creek, and went on to join first Alfred William Howitt’s Victorian Relief Expedition, which aimed to establish the fate of the Burke and Wills expedition, and then in 1861 the John McKinlay relief party, on which he served as second-in-command.

Hodgkinson spent much of the 1890s in Sydney and Western Australia, working as an expert in mining.

William Oswald Hodgkinson was born on 21 March 1835 in Handsworth, Warwick, England.



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