Gordon Hockley

Gordon Stanley Hockley was an Australian politician.
He was born in Albury, [New South Wales|Albury] to motor mechanic Stanley Bertram Hockley and nurse Frances McIntosh. He attended local state schools and became a clerk with Victorian Railways in Melbourne from 1942 to 1945, before serving with the Royal Australian Navy from 1945 to 1972. He was a cook attached to an admiral's staff with the Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan, and then a lieutenant in charge of catering training. On 17 October 1947 he married Joyce Eileen Carne; they had four sons. On his return he was a lieutenant in the Royal Australian Navy Emergency Reserve, and a catering manager at Royal Southern Memorial Hospital in Caulfield from 1972 to 1979. In 1979 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Australian [Labor Party (Victorian Branch)|Labor] member for Bentleigh. He served until his retirement in 1988. Hockley died in 2002.