Name
Harry John Hodgins
19/01/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/04/1915
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3529
East Surrey Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 34.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey, Oxhey War Memorial, St John The Baptist Church, Pinner, Middx.
Pre War
Harry John Hodgins, born at Hatch End, Middlesex, on 19th January 1894, was the son of Walter William Hodgins, a domestic coachman, and his wife Elizabeth Hodgins (nee Tibbles).
1901 Census records Harry aged 7 living with his parents, elder brother William 10, at Woodridge, Pinner, Middlesex.
Harry was employed by the London & North Western Railway Company in January 1909 as a railway porter.
In 1911 Harry had left home and was living as a lodger at 61 Grover Road, Oxhey, with the Wilson family, within walking distance of Bushey railway station where he worked as a Porter. When Harry enlisted, he was a ticket collector at Watford Station.
Wartime Service
Harry enlisted in Harrow, Middlesex, posted to the East Surrey Regiment with the service number 3529. On completion of his training he landed in France in February 1915 and served on the Western Front.
He was killed in action two months later on 20 April 1915, he has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium.
He is commemorated on the memorial at St Matthew’s Church, Oxhey as Hodgins, H.
Additional Information
The value of his effects were £7-1s-2d, Pay Owing and £3, War Gratuity, which went to his father Walter. After his death he was recorded as the son of Walter William Hodgins, of the Lodge, New Dove House, Hatch End, Middx. Information provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.bushey
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
