Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookilip Ormiston Hodgson.=] =HODGSON, ROBERT=, Private, No. 10571, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd _s._ of the late Edward Hodgson, by his wife, Mary; _b._ Auckland Park, co. Durham, 22 Dec. 1893; enlisted, 14 Dec. 1909; went to France, 29 Dec. 1914, and died, 8 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action at Doorstraat; _unm._ [Illustration: =Robert Hodgson.=] =HODSDON, HARRY=, Sergt., No. 19, 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Henry Hodsdon, of 33, Concannon Road, Brixton; _b._ Islington, 22 March, 1885; educ. Mathias Road Board School; joined the Post Office Rifles in 1903; became Sergt., volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed at the Battle of Festubert, 21-26 May, 1915, in which his Battn. greatly distinguished itself; _unm._ =HODSOLL, GEORGE BERTRAM POLLOCK=, Capt., 3rd Battn. (Special Reserve), the Suffolk Regt., 2nd _s._ of Charles Maxfield Hodsoll, of Farm House, Capel, Surrey, formerly of Loose Court, Kent [descended from the old Kent family of Hodsoll]; by his wife, Georgiana Mary, elder dau. of George Kennet Pollock, granddau. of Sir David Pollock, Chief Justice of Bombay, and grandniece of Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, of Khyber Pass celebrity, _b._ Loose Court, co. Kent, 18 June, 1875; educ. Maidstone School and University College, Oxford; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Cambridgeshire Militia, then the 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt., Dec. 1902, and subsequently transferred to the 3rd Battn. Special Reserve, Suffolk Regt., and obtained his company 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 23 Oct. following, and was there attd. to the 1st Cheshires, and was killed in action at the First Battle of Ypres, 7 Nov. 1914, while gallantly leading his men in a counter-attack. The Adjutant, Capt. L. Frost, wrote: "On 7 Nov. about three o'clock in the afternoon, the regt. on our left fell back and the Germans came through their trenches, so Capt. Hodsoll, Mr. Anderson and myself, with the supports of our regt. made a counter-attack. Your husband had not gone more than 100 yards when he, poor fellow, was killed, he died instantaneously and could not have suffered any pain at all. He died giving his life for his country at a very critical moment, if this counter-attack had failed, it would have meant the whole line coming back. He died a glorious and magnificent death. Capt. Pollock Hodsoll was buried the same evening on the ground where he died, in a wood near a chateau about 3½ miles east of Ypres. A wooden cross with his name was placed on the grave." Capt. Pollock Hodsoll was well known to all followers of Association Football, having played many years for both the Casuals and Corinthians, touring with these teams both on the Continent and in South Africa, and captained the Army team on several occasions. He was much interested in political matters, and frequently spoke in public on this subject, and in support of the Unionist cause, and in favour of National Military Service. He _m._ at Edinburgh, 1 June, 1914, Olive Margaret, eldest dau. of the Rev. George Milne Rae, of Edinburgh, D.D.; _s.p._ [Illustration: =George B. P. Hodsoll.=] =HODSON, DANIEL=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10644), 210650, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =HODSON, EDWARD WILFRID=, Rifleman, No. 298, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Gilbert Hodson, of Broomfield Avenue, Palmer's Green, N., Secretary of Public Company, by his wife, Alice, dau. of George F. Snook; _b._ Highgate, N., 12 July, 1891; educ. Enfield Grammar School; was Junior Salesman in the Mantle Department of a London Wholesale House (Bradbury, Greatorex & Co., Ltd.) before the war; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the London Rifle Brigade, 2 Sept. 1914, went to France, March, 1915, and died in the Military Hospital, Wandsworth, 22 May following, of wounds received on the 14th, near Verlounhock, during the Second Battle of Ypres, where his battalion greatly distinguished itself, and sustained terrible casualties, losing in one day 170 men; _unm._ Owing to the heavy losses which the L.R.B.'s machine gun section had suffered, Rifleman Hodson had been attached on 5 May to the crew of one of the guns, and a comrade wrote: "That one machine gun was soon put out of action by a shell, but another was soon put into its place. It was while standing by this second gun that a shell exploded which killed several of the fellows, and so badly wounded Wilfrid. I understand he calmly took the bandages from his pocket and put them ready for the fellows to bind him up. It is probably this coolness that misled our men, and although we knew he was hit in many places, his extraordinary cheerfulness and pluck gave us high hopes of his ultimate recovery." [Illustration: =Edward Wilfrid Hodson.=] =HODSON, HUBERT BERNARD=, Private, No. 15256, Princess Patricia's Canadian L.I., 6th _s._ of the late Rev. Thomas Hodson, M.A., Rector of Oddington, Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Glos., by his wife, Catherine Anne, dau. of the late Rev. T. R. Maskew, Rector of Thornbury, Hereford; _b._ The Slad Vicarage, near Stroud, 22 June, 1892; educ. Ormond House Preparatory School, Dursley, and Cheltenham College, where he gained a classical scholarship, and the Hornby Prize for French; went to Canada for the second time in March, 1914; joined the 22nd Canadian Light Horse on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; transferred at his own request to the P.P.C.L.I. in April, 1915; went to France the same month, and was killed instantly in action near Ypres, 8 May, 1915, by shell fire; _unm._ His coy. commander wrote that: "No braver life was ever given for his country. Ever since he joined the regiment he has shown the true spirit of the soldier, he was always ready for any duty, no matter how trying or dangerous, and generally did a little more than his share. On several occasions he was placed in positions where not only courage was required but judgment of the situation and quick action, and he never failed us." [Illustration: =Hubert Bernard Hodson.=] =HODSON, ROBERT=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21974, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =HOFFMAN, FRANCIS EDWARD CHARLES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3257B, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =HOGAN, JOHN=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2505 B., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =HOGAN, ROBERT GARRETT ROCHE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Royal Berkshire Regt., only _s._ of William John Alexander Hogan, of Saharanpur, United Provinces, India, Civil Surgeon, and his wife, Evelyn Christine, dau. of William FitzGaskin Roche, of Mallow, co. Cork; _b._ Fyzabad, United Provinces, India; educ. St. Joseph's Irish Christian Brothers, India; Wimbledon College, Edge Hill, Surrey; and qualified for the Army with Mr. B |