BORN HULL 1893. SON OF WILLIAM JAMES HODGSON & MARY ANN HODGSON. THEY LIVED AT EASINGTON (1901 CENSUS) AND 113 , DURHAM STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE WAS A WOOD CARVER APPRENTICE. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED AS A SERGEANT IN THE 11TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. KILLED ON 25/05/1918, AGED 24. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 31ST DECEMBER 1918, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
Hull Pals Memorial Post. SERGEANT KENNETH HODGSON 11/913. Born 28th August 1893, Kenneth was the second of three sons to William and Mary Hodgson of 113 Durham Street, Hull. A Carpenter by trade, he enlisted at Hull City Hall during the second week of September 1914 joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. One of The Originals, Kenneth was a veteran of Egypt, the Somme, Oppy Wood and had survived the first weeks of the German Spring Offensive. How the battalion must have changed around him as first he lost the friends he’d trained with during 1915, then lost their replacements, and in turn their replacements too. Many of the old hands seemed remote to the new recruits, and part of this was a desire to not make friends they would only lose, and to have that pain all over again. Kenneth Hodgson was killed in action on 25th May 1918 and is buried in Lille Southern Cemetery suggesting he was buried by the Germans, who will have come across his body in ground they’d taken; he was 24 years old.
