23rd April 1890 - 27th June 1917 (age 27)
Private 201230
1st/4th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
The following items appeared in the Yorkshire Gazette:
26th May 1917
Pte.Tom Hodgson son of Mr & Mrs W. Hodgson of Railway Terrace, Thirsk
has been wounded in the thigh by shrapnel. He was one of the boys who
did so well on Easter Monday. He has been in France for a year, formerly
working on the N.E.R. He is 22 years of age and is the youngest of five
brothers in the Army.
28th July 1917
Patriotic Sowerby Family
News has been received that Lance Corpl. H.Hodgson, son of Mr & Mrs W.Hodgson
of Railway-tce, Sowerby, Thirsk, was killed in action in France on 27
June. He was home on leave last Christmas after being wounded. Previous
to joining the forces he worked for nine years for the lord of the manor
at Thirsk. He came off a patriotic family, two of his brothers being in
Salonica, one is wounded and at present in Sheffield Hospital, and another
is in training at Aldershot.
William Hodgson, a cabinet maker, and his wife Sarah, lived at 16 Railway
Terrace where they had 8 children who all survived to adulthood. As can
be seen from the news items above, five of their six sons served in the
Army in the Great War. Their youngest son Tom, who worked as a draper,
was wounded in April 1917 and was still in hospital when Herbert died
of wounds 3 months later. Herbert had been a woodman at the manor in Thirsk
and he enlisted into the Yorkshire Regiment in Northallerton. He lies
in St. Martin Calvaire British Cemetery, St. Martin-Sur-Cojeul, plot 1.B.24.
The information on this page was compiled by Steve Billings.
Information about Herbert Hodgson on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website
Information about Herbert Hodgson on the War Graves Photographic Project website
Information about Herbert Hodgson on the Yorkshire Regiment - First World War Remembrance website