Name
Harold Wardale Hodges
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 32 and 33.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Village Memorial, Watton-at-Stone, St Andrew and St Mary Church Roll of Honour, Watton-at-Stone
Pre War
Born 14 Oct 1893 in Watton at Stone as the elder son of Herbert Chamney Hodges, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. and Dora Katharine (Wardale) Hodges, later of Corey's Mill, Stevenage, Herts.
Educated at Epsom College where he was Captain of his hockey team, and read classics at Hertford College, Oxford.
Wartime Service
Harold was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 6th K.R.R.C. from the University O.T.C. on the 15th of August 1914. He arrived in France in December 1914 and was killed in action near Rue du Bois in the attack on Aubers Ridge.
His Commanding Officer wrote: "Hodges was one of my best subalterns, and is a very great loss to me. Besides being a first-rate officer, he was a charming boy and deservedly popular with his brother officers."
Additional Information
Harold is also commemorated on the family grave in Watton-At-Stone (SS. Andrew and Mary) Churchyard. Unfortunately, his part of the inscription is obscured by the grace's fallen cross:
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
