Captain James Percival Hodgkinson

Army Number : n/a

Battalion : 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Lived at George Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham. Son of James and Susan Amelia Hodgkinson, of Riverlyn House, Fiskerton, Nottinghamshire. He was an insurance clerk prior to enlisting. He was commissioned Lieutenant 14th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 1st February 1915 and posted to the 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 24th March 1916. He went to France 24th March 1916 and was killed in action, 2nd November 1916, aged 24, by German shellfire, whilst in the line near Arras, France.

Captain James Percival Hodgkinson

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Nottingham Daily Express 10th November 1916

Buried: Faubourg Damiens Cemetery, Arras, France. Plot 1. Row H. Grave 31.

Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France.

Captain James Percival Hodgkinson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Giles Church War Memorial, West Bridgford, Nottingham.
West Bridgford War Memorial, Nottingham
High Pavement Boys’ Grammar School War Memorial, (Nottingham Archives), Nottingham.
Nottingham University OTC War Memorial, Nottingham.
Nottingham Rowing Clubs War Memorial, Nottingham.
Britannia Rowing Club War Memorial, Nottingham.