BORN HULL 1895. HULL PAL. SON OF MARGARET ABOVE. KILLED IN ACTION. LISTED ON THE ST MARKS STREET MEMORIAL WITH ALFRED HODGSON, EYR KILLED IN ACTION ON 31/3/18.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WILLIAM HENRY HODGSON 12/1333. Born in April 1895, William was the fourth of nine children to John and Margaret Hodgson of 6 Hodgson Street, Hull. A Mill Labourer before the war he enlisted on New Year’s Eve 1915 joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. One of the Originals, he served in Egypt, over the Winter of 1915/16, landing in Marseilles on March 8th and shipping north to Armentieres and the trenches of the Western Front. William was killed in action on the 13th November 1916, as the 12th and 13th Battalions, formed the front line assault on German positions, in the ruins of the French village of Serre. This was part of the last desperate and crushingly pointless act of the doomed Somme campaign. Listed as missing presumed dead, his body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, to those killed in that sector, who have no known grave; he was 21 years old.
Hodgson, William Henry
First name:
WILLIAM HENRY
Military Number:
12/1333
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/11/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
21
