BORN WAKEFILED 31/12/1891. SON OF JOHN THOMAS HODGSON AND MARY ANN ASKEW. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1915. HE MARRIED GERTRUDE AGAR IN JUNE 1916. THEY LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. HIS SHIP SUNK BY MINE OFF FOLKESTONE, ON 01/02/1918 AND HE DIED AT SEA AGED 26. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM HILL, NAVAL MEMORIAL, KENT. HE LEFT SIBLINGS, STEVEN, JOHN AND MARY. HIS BROTHER CHRISTOPHER HODSON, DIED IN OLDHAM IN 1914, AGED 20.
The naval trawler Cleon, was an armed minesweeper. She struck a mine and sank in the English Channel off Folkestone, Kent with the loss of twelve of her crew
1. BINNEY, WILLIAM HENRY (18), Ordinary Seaman (no. J/71715), HMT Cleon, Royal Navy, †01/02/1918, Son of John A. and Sarah Ann Binney, of 183, Thomas St., Sheffield, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial 2. CAWLEY, ARCHIBALD (20), Deck Hand (no. 5696DA), HMT Cleon, Royal Naval Reserve, †01/02/1918, Son of Mrs. Cawley, of 8, Donington St., Grimsby, Lincs. Native of Sutton, Lincs, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 3. FLYNN, JOSEPH (22), Seaman (no. 8218A), HMT Cleon, Royal Naval Reserve, †01/02/1918, Son of William and Norah Flynn, of St. Mary’s Terrace, Midleton, Co. Cork, Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial 4. HODGSON, JOSEPH (26), Deck Hand (no. 9833DA), HMT Cleon, Royal Naval Reserve, †01/02/1918, Husband of Gertrude Hodgson, of 9, Churchill St.. Hedon Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 5. HUNN, WILLIAM GEORGE (35), Deck Hand (no. 215DA), HMT Cleon, Royal Naval Reserve, †01/02/1918, Son of William George Hunn, of Great Yarmouth; husband of Helen Hunn, of 56, Wellington St., Aberdeen, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial 6. MACDONALD, GEORGE ALEXANDER (36), Trimmer (no. 3288TS), HMT Cleon, Royal Naval Reserve, †01/02/1918, Husband of Christina Macdonald, of 20, Seamount Place, Aberdeen, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial 7. MCDONALD, JOHN WALKER , Engineman (no. 411TS), HMT Cleon, Royal Naval Reserve, †01/02/1918, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial 8. NAPIER, ALEXANDER REID , Engineman (no. 3065ES), HMT Cleon, Royal Naval Reserve, †01/02/1918, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial 9. PAYNE, JOSEPH , Deck Hand (no. 9215DA), HMT Cleon, Royal Naval Reserve, †01/02/1918, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 10. READING, RICHARD WALLACE (38), Second Hand (no. 2690SA), HMT Cleon, Royal Naval Reserve, †01/02/1918, Husband of Catherine Maria Reading, of 4, Argyle Rd., Whitstable. Native of Ramsgate, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 11. SINCLAIR, PETER CAMPBELL (30), Skipper (no. 1472SA), HMT Cleon, Royal Naval Reserve, †01/02/1918, Son of the late William and Annie Sinclair, of Findochty; husband of Catherine Sinclair, of 15, North Blantyre St., Findochty, Banffshire, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial 12. WATSON, JAMES (22), Trimmer (no. 181TS), HMT Cleon, Royal Naval Reserve, †01/02/1918, Awarded Silver Medal for Zeal, with ribbon of St. Anne (Russia). Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Watson, of Grimsby; husband of Alice Maud Glentworth Ashby (formerly Watson), of 22, Harrington St., New Clee, Grimsby, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?73251
