Name
Harry Hodson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
The Parish Magazine of October 1915 records Harry, who was serving in the Royal Engineers, as ‘indirectly connected to Pirton’.
Parish records suggest only one man of this name who could have served, and he was born on October 29th 1879 to William and Asenath Hodson (née Crouch and possibly Aisena or Asinath), so would have been thirty-four at the outbreak of war. Baptism records list five children: Charles (bapt 1863), Emma (bapt 1871), Lois (bapt 1875), Joseph (bapt 1876) and Harry (b 1879). It seems likely that this is the correct man. However, the above information would normally be sufficient to confirm this man’s Pirton connection, so the reference of ‘indirectly connected to Pirton’ means that perhaps this is a false trail.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission.
