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Bert Hodgson
British Army 149th (Wakefield) Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
Gnr. Bert Hodgson
British Army 149th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Blackpool
Bert Hodgson was just a regular guy doing his duty, my grandad and all his batallion. To me they were all brave men. Many of whom never returned home. For whatever reason my Grandad Bert never ever talked about any of experiences. I've got his medals and his bayonet and scabbard of which I'm proud to own. I also have a sepia panoramic photograph of grandad and the whole battalion hanging on my wall showing the regimental mascot a little black and white terrier. I would like to learn more about Grandad Bert but being as he didn't want to talk about the war perhaps it's best left alone.
Capt. C. M. Hodgson
Army 14th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Sjt. Edward Hodgson
British Army 52nd Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Chorley
(d.4th Aug 1919)
Teddy Hodgson, played professional football for Burnley FC before he joined the Army in 1915, quickly gaining promotion to sergeant-instructor. Again, like many professionals, he was able to return to Burnley to represent his club in the wartime leagues, playing and scoring on a regular basis. It was at Stockport in March 1919 that he wore the claret and blue for the last time.
While serving in the Army of occupation in Germany the following summer he developed kidney trouble and was confined to hospital where his condition rapidly deteriorated. At the end of July he was returned to England where he underwent a series of operations at the Whalley Military Hospital in the Ribble Valley. It was to no avail and Teddy Hodgson passed away on 4th August 1919 at only 33 years of age.
A perfect gentleman both on and off the field, he had been hugely popular with the Clarets’ fans and hundreds of people lined the Burnley streets as his funeral cortege moved slowly from his home in Haven Street to the town’s cemetery. The Burnley Express was moved to write thus: “Last week, the cleverest inside-left Burnley have ever had was taken to his final resting place. Teddy Hodgson was probably Burnley’s best and most consistent forward, and Bert Freeman will greatly feel the loss of so smart and tricky a partner.â€Â
The following month, a benefit match was held at Turf Moor, and a crowd of over 4,000 saw a Burnley XI take on a Football League XI, with more than £250 raised for Teddy Hodgson’s family. Teddy Hodgson’s senior football career, all spent with Burnley, was relatively short, lasting just four seasons, but he made an enormous impact with his abundance of natural talent. He will always be remembered as one of Turf Moor’s true footballing legends.
L/Cpl. Francis Hodgson
British Army 7th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:William Street, Scarborough
(d.13th May 1917 )
I never met my Great Uncle Frank; he died 41 years before I was born, but he is as real to me as any of my relatives that I have met. Prior to joining up he was a rugby player and all-round sportsman. He died aged 23, possibly at the 2nd Battle of Bullecourt, on 13th of May 1917. I am always researching his name and year by year, more and more information becomes available to me.
He is commemorated on the Addenda Panel of Arras Memorial, Calais. His body, to date, has not been recovered. He is also commemorated on Scarborough's War Memorial on the top of Oliver's Mount, and on the graves of his parents George and Betsy-Ann Hodgson, in Manor Road Cemetery, Scarborough.
I made a promise to my Dad that I would try and find Uncle Frank and give him a proper grave, and I hope that I can fulfill that promise somehow, someday. In the meantime "Lest We Forget". I'll bet he never thought that his Great Niece, whom he never met, would still be remembering him all these years down the line, but I do, and I will continue to do so. I am very proud of my Uncle.
Gnr. Frederick Hodgson
British Army 71st Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Wheatcroft Road, Sandhill, Rawmarsh, Rotherham
My grandfather Frederick Hodgson was born at Kilnurst, Swinton, near Rotherham on 2nd November 1892. As  youngster he had an accident with a horse and cart in Swinton, which resulted in him injuring a leg that reduced his mobility for the rest of his life. At the outbreak of WW1 he tried to enlist in the infantry with his pals, but due to his disability he has turned down. He persisted with his wish to serve his country and was finally accepted into the Royal Garrison Artillery as he had experience of working with pit ponies in the colliery in which he was employed. He joined the 150th Heavy Battery RGA which was raised in his home town of Rotherham in  October 1915. The Battery trained for 7 months in the UK before being sent to France, landing 17th June 1916 and opened fire for the first time at Neuvre Eglise, 29th June 1916.
At some time during his service in France he was transferred to the 71st Heavy Battery. Whilst with the 71st Heavies, he was captured by the Germans at Villers on the 30th November 1917. The story goes that after a heavy night of exhausting shelling, their position was over run in a major German advance. A German soldier apparently stood over Frederick and his gun crews dug out with a stick grenade. Thankfully the grenade wasn't thrown and the crew were all captured. Frederick eventually was transferred to a POW camp at Dulmen in Westphalia, Germany. When the Armistace was signed in November 1918, the gates to the prison camp were opened and as there was no transport available, Frederick and his fellow internees had to walk all the way to Antwerp in Belgium to get a ship home to England. As they walked through Germany they had to steal turnips out of the fields to eat as there was no other food available. He recalled that they were sworn and spat at by the German residents as they went along their way.
Frederick finally got home to Rotherham, went back to his pit ponies and married Mary Clarke in 1922. They had four boys and the third born was my father Russell Hodgson and I am his son Alyn Hodgson. I'm here now because the German soldier didn't throw his grenade, so I thank him for his humanity in not taking Frederick, my grand father's life.
Frederick never talked about his war and although he received his three medals for his service to his country, but he never wore them. They were thrown in a drawer at home and were lost over time. Frederick died on 1st March 1952 on his way home from a shift with his beloved ponies.
I never knew my grandad Frederick, as he died before I was born, but I wish I had. He was just a normal and humble young man doing his duty for this pals, his community and country. I'm proud of him and so thankful that he came out of there alive, so many didn't leaving tens of thousands grandchildren un-born.
Pte. Henry Alfred Hodgson
British Army 11th (1st Finsbury Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
My Grandfather Henry Hodgson enlisted in 1912 with the 2/11th Battalion County of London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles), he served in the Battle of Ypres at Passchendaele, surviving the war after being wounded, he went on to serve in the Home Guard in WW2. He passed away in 1963.
Pte. James Richard Hodgson
British Army 4th. Yorkshire Regiment
(d.15th Sep 1916)
Pte. John Hodgson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gateshead
Sgt. John Hodgson
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 101 Sqdn.
(d.29th July 1944)
ABC Lancaster SR-V2 (LM462) from 101 Squadron, Ludford Magna was shot down near Orleans, France 28/29th July 1944
All the crew were killed in action on this mission and are buried in Rebrechien Communal Cemetery. The crew were:
F/Sgt C.E. Smith - navigator Sgt J. Hodgson - flight engineer Sgt E.R. Brown - airgunner Sgt T. Crane - airbomber Sgt W.H. Engelhardt - wop P/O P.J. Hyland - pilot Sgt J.T.V. Moore - wop P/O A.W. Turri - airbomber
Pte. John William Hodgson
British Army 2nd Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
(d.14th Apr 1917)
John Hodgson enlisted in Mexborough, South Yorkshire. He was killed in action on 14th of April 1917. I believe near St Quentin, France. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Nr Albert, France. At the time of his death he was approximately 30 years of age. Pre-war he was an ironworks labourer.
Gnr. Joseph Ward Hodgson
British Army 42nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Dendron, Ulverston, Lancs
Joseph Hodgson was my maternal grandfather, he was the headmaster of the local C of E Board school that took children from the local villages of Gleaston, Leece, and Dendron (on the north side of Morecambe Bay) to the age of 14.
He signed up, aged 34, for service on 10th December 1915 and was called up for service with the RGA on 8th April 1916 at Fort Brockhurst, Gosport and was posted to BEF in France on 8th August 1916 and joined 42nd Siege Battery on 24th August that year, staying with his unit from that time until his discharge on 17 January 1919.
Unfortunately he died in 1946, three years before my birth, but my mother said that like so many of his generation who were close to the front, he never spoke of the War. However, she did tell the storey of going on a painting holiday to Belgium (he was a keen amateur watercolourist) in the early 1930s and all was normal until they visited a graveyard when this six foot 2 inches tall man, her daddy and a pillar of the local establishment in her home area, collapsed to the ground sobbing and shooed her and her stepmother away until he could regain his composure
Joseph Hodgson
British Army 184th Tunnelling Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Rosedale Abbey
(d.3rd August 1917)
Joseph Hodgson died due to infected wounds caused when dismantling a Nissen hut. He was also court marshalled for the wounds as it was thought it was done on purpose.
Pte. Matthew Hodgson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
Pte. Ralf Hodgson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Usworth
(d.27th Aug 1918)
Ralf Hodgson is buried in Ecoust Cemetery
Pte. Robert Hodgson
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Scots
(d.8th Feb 1915)
Robert Hodgson, Private 10571, died of wounds and is buried in Elzenwalle Brassierie Cemetery.
Sgt. Robery Hodgson
British Army 20th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Sunderland
Stanley Percival Hodgson
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps.
from:Fern Cottage, Glen Road, Baildon
I have found pictures of my grandfather, Stanley Percival Hodgson in army uniform and know nothing about them. He was in the RAMC but I have no idea where he was stationed. The No 2 Medical Hospital features in some of the pictures. He survived the war. He was born in 1898 and died aged 75. I have searched many websites but have found nothing about him at all. I do not have any of his medals either just a dog tag.
Drvr. William Hodgson
British Army Base Mechanical Transport Depot Army Service Corps
(d.23rd Aug 1916)
William Hodgson died on the 23rd of August 1916. He is buried in the Solonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery in Greece.
CQM Sgt. John Hodkin
British Army Duke of Wellington Rgt
I have just found out that a great uncle served in Malta from 1915. John Hodkin No 9261 or 22725 joined the Duke of Wellington Rgt in 1908. He was part of the BEF going to France 14/8/1914 - 16/8/1915. On 31/71915 he was posted to West Yorks Rgt, specifically 1 Garrison batt which was sent to Malta. His rank at the time was L/Cpl but he was discharged in 1919 as CQM Sgt. Could you give me any information on what this Batt did in Malta, whereabouts it was stationed on the island. I noticed from one web site that 16 men died whilst based on Malta with the Batt. Are there any photographs or details of the troops who undertook this duty? Although I have obtained details of his military service from the National Archives, many of the original sheets were badly damaged from water/fire or smoke so that some information is unreadable.
Pte. Thomas Arthur Peston "Tap" Hodkin DCM.
British Army 9th Btn. Yorks and Lancashire Regiment
James Hodkinson
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:
All I know is what my Grand Mother told me, and that is James Hodkinson moved from Wrexham to Bath and served with an Artillery Garrison in Bath ,and he was gassed in the the war.
Pte. James Hodnett
British Army 1st Btn. Black Watch
from:Smethwick
Grandad James Hodnett joined up under age, he had lied about his age. He survived the war and was then sent to India as he was a regular. He was discharged to the reserves in 1925.
Pte George Edward Scholy Hodson
British Army 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
(d.13 Oct 1915)
Pte. H. C. Hodson
Australian Imperial Force. att. 3rd Salvage Coy. 42nd Btn.
Pte. Joseph Hodson
British Army 13th Btn. Kings (Liverpool Regiment)
from:Elmhurst, Staffordshire.
(d.15th Oct 1916)
Joseph Hodson enlisted with the North Staffordshire Regiment, Service No. 25927 He was killed in action on the 15th of October 1916, aged 32 and is buried in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France. He was married with 3 children and was the son of William and Alice Helena (née Taylor) Hodson of Elmhurst, Staffordshire.
Pte. William "Snowy" Hodson
Australian Imperial Force 52nd Battalion
from:Oakey, Queensland, Australia
My Grandad, William Hodson, was 16 years and 4 months when he enlisted. He served with the 52nd Battalion until wounded at Dernancourt on 5th April, 1918. After recovering, he joined the 4th Machine Gun Battalion. He was one of the few Australians who volunteered for the North Russian Relief Force, and served three months in North Russia with the 45th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He arrived home on the "Nestor" in 1920.
Pte. William Hodson
British Army Hampshire Regiment
from:Elmhurst, Staffordshire.
Bill Hodson is known to have been wounded. He was the son of William and Alice Helena (née Taylor) Hodson of Elmhurst, Staffordshire.
Pte. William Alfred Hodson
British Army 1st Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Manchester Rd, Accrington
(d.9th August 1915)
William Hodson was my great uncle, my paternal grandma's brother. He died at Gallipoli on 9th August 1915. He is commemorated at the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli. We paid our respects in October 2016, at Helles with my father who is now 88 years of age.
Stkr. James Hoey
Royal Naval Reserve HMS Aquitania
from:Stockton-on-Tees
James Hoey served in the Royal Naval Reserve for 20 years (1909-1929). His service in the Royal Navy began August 1914 when called out by proclamation. After service on HMS Vengeance and a number of other vessels he joined Aquitania, which was a converted trans-Atlantic liner, both during it's service as a hospital ship in the Dardanelles campaign (Gallipoli) and as a troop carrier taking United States troops home from Europe until January 1919.
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