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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 214

Four: Flight Sergeant J. W. Hodgson, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service

1914-15 Star (F.405. J. W. Hodgson, A.M., R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (200405. F.Sgt. J. W. Hodgson. R.A.F.); Royal Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., erased, minor patches of staining to third, otherwise good very fine (4)

[M.S.M.] London Gazette 3 June 1918.

John William Hodgson was born on 8 May 1884 at Goole, Yorkshire, the son of Arthur and Emma Hodgson. A cabinet maker by profession, he served as Air Mechanic 1st Grade with the Royal Naval Air Service from 14 September 1914, being promoted Petty Officer (Mechanic) on 1 August 1916. Initially posted for 6 months to the seaplane tender H.M.S. Engadine, he transferred on 23 March 1915 to the packet steamer and seaplane carrier Ben-my-Chree, being present aboard her during operations in the Dardanelles in June to support the Gallipoli Campaign. It was from Ben-my-Chree that the Allies staged the first ship-launched aerial torpedo attack on an enemy vessel in August 1915 (Warship International, Volume 49, International Naval Research Organisation, pp. 297-299, refers).

Posted home on 31 January 1917, Hodgson served in Italy from 14 April 1917-31 March 1918 before transferring to the R.A.F. and seeing out the war at Crystal Palace and Roehampton; sold with copied service record.


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Sold for
£420

Starting price
£130