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Lieutenant WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Devonshire Regiment

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1916

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DEVONSHIRE CEMETERY, MAMETZ

A. 3.

France

Poets connected with the 1st World War: headstone of Lieut William Hodgson in Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz, France

Photographer: CWGC

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of the Rt. Rev. Henry Bernard Hodgson, D.D., 1st Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, and Penelope Hodgson (nee Warren), of Churcher's College, Petersfield, Hants. One of the war poets. Author of "Verse and Prose in Peace and War".
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Buried or commemorated at

DEVONSHIRE CEMETERY, MAMETZ
Somme France
Number of casualties: 163
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