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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 287

'We were holding a section of an entrenched position on the 2nd, and your son's Company, "D," was on the right our line.... and the Germans (took) an opportunity to make a very strong attack upon our right. So well were our men kept in hand by your son and the late Captain Gerrard (killed the same day) that they hung on for several hours unsupported, and even after both officers were hit they fought splendidly. The result was the German attack failed, and there is no doubt that this was due to the splendid example set by your son. He was directing the fire of his men when he was hit in the neck by a bullet.'

The account of Captain Askew on the fatal wounding of Lieutenant G. W. H. Hodgson on 2 November 1914

The Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque issued in memory of Lieutenant G. W. H. Hodgson, Border Regiment

Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (George William Houghton Hodgson), edge bruising, very fine

George William Houghton Hodgson was born at Distington, Cumberland on 21 October 1888, the son of Reverend W.G.C. Hodgson of Houghton House, Cumberland. Educated at Westminster School and later Trinity College, Cambridge where he was Coxswain of the Third Boat. Graduated in 1912 while also serving with the Artillery O.T.C. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant with the Border Regiment on 19 September 1912 Hodgson was promoted Lieutenant in October 1914.

Severely wounded in the neck during a ferocious engagement on 2 November 1914 when his Battalion suffered heavy losses, Hodgson was taken to No. 13 General Hospital, Bolougne but died on 6 November. He received a posthumous 'mention' in Sir John French's dispatch of 14 January 1915 (London Gazette 17 February 1915, refers). He is buried at Bolougne Eastern Cemetery; sold together with copied research including a London Gazette entry, census data and Commonwealth War Graves details as well as a biographical note, M.I.C. and pension details.

Further entitled to the 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medals.

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