Alan Brigham, writes on 11/3/2008 – Cpl Hogg served in the 2nd Hull Pals, enlisting at Hull City Hall in September 1914. After training in England he was sent to Egypt in 1915 and France in March, 1916.He was killed in action on the Somme on 13th October 1916 aged 23.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. LANCE CORPORAL GEORGE EDWARD HOGG 11/63. Born in Wakefield in January 1894, George was the eldest son of Samuel and Sophia Hogg, of 5 Prison Bungalows, Hedon Road, Hull and 60, Charlotte Street, Hull (War pension address). Details are scarce I’m afraid, but going by his regimental number alone I can tell you he enlisted at Hull City Hall in the first days of September 1914, joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. He served in Egypt and arrived in France on 8th March 1916 docking in Marseilles before heading north to the trenches of the Western Front. After some time out of the line over the late summer, the Pals returned to the Somme on 8th October marching five and a half hours overnight to the Vauchelles sector where they went into training for the forthcoming attack on Serre and the self-same positions they had watched their comrades attack in vain on 1st July as they huddled in support trenches awaiting the possibility of being ordered to go over the top in a second wave. That never happened, and they witnessed the horrors of that day as bystanders. George was killed in action on 13th October 1916 and is buried at Euston Road Cemetery; he was 22 years old.
His weekly war pension of 10 shillings was awarded on 29/3/1917, to his dependent mother, Sophia A, Hogg at 60, Charlotte Street, Hull. She died on 2/3/1956. (War pension Records)
