Captain Maurice Kirkman Hodgson

Army Number : n/a

Battalion : 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in London, 23rd October 1880. Son of Robert Kirkman Hodgson and of Lady Norah Janet Hodgson, of 77, Eaton Square, London. He was educated at Radley College, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and after serving with the embodied Militia for nearly a year was gazetted to the Sherwood Foresters (then the Derbyshire Regiment) in November 1900. He served in the South African War, having been for three months, in 1901, Garrison Transport Officer. He was present at the operations in the Transvaal and was slightly wounded. He received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He was promoted Lieutenant in April 1902; from February, 1907 to January 1910 was Adjutant to his battalion; and was promoted Captain in December 1908. He went to France and was wounded at La Bassee, France, but remained on duty, and was again wounded at Neuve Chappell, France, from the effects from which he died on the 13th March 1915, aged 35.

Buried: Estaires Communal Cemetery and Extension, France. Plot 2. Row H, Grave 7.

Captain Maurice Kirkman Hodgson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Radley College War Memorial, Arch, Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

His brother Captain Michael Reginald Kirkman Hodgson, 2nd Battalion attached 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers also fell in the Great War.