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Corporal JAMES HODNETT

Service Number: 4397461
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 June 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY

X. B. 8.

France

WEA Battle Exploit Memorial and Agency Services Sites, and associated CWGC cemeteries, in Normandy and northern France photographed by Malcolm Ross - July 2017: Hottot-les-Bagues War Cemetery - new headstone of Corporal J. Hodnett, Green Howards

Photographer: Malcolm Ross

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Victoria May Hodnett, of Kendray, Barnsley, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription NOBLY HE GAVE AND MORE THAN LIFE TO SUCH WE OWE
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Buried or commemorated at

HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1138
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