Private 18904 Harold HODSON

Private 18904 Harold Hodson{gallery}Pte H Hodson{/gallery}8th Battalion, South Lancashire (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) Regiment
Killed in action in the Battle of the Somme, France and Flanders, 3rd July 1916, aged 18

• Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 7A & 7B
  
• Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Frederick and Annie Maud Hodson
• NNWFHS Memorial: Griff Colliery and Nuneaton Other Regiments
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Hodson
• Thiepval Memorial
• South Lancashire Regiment

1911 Census and Family History Information

• Born Jan Qtr 1898 at Nuneaton
  
• Lived at 43 Lister Street, Attleborough [1901 & 1911]
• Lived at 296 Gadsby Street, Attleborough [1915]
  
• Employed as a bottle washer [1911]
• Employed as a miner at Griff Colliery [1915]
  
• Enlisted 21 April 1915 at Nuneaton. Arrived in France with BEF on 29 Sep 1915