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"Before Action: William Noel Hodgson and the 9th Devons"
"Before Action: William Noel Hodgson and the 9th Devons"
The book of this title by Charlotte Zeepvat - ISBN 1783463759 - tells the story of the poet William Noel Hodgson. After a childhood at vicarages in Thornbury (Glos) and Berwick, he was a King's Scholar at Durham School and won a scholarship to Christ Church Oxford. On the outbreak of war he was commissioned into the 9th (Service) Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment where he won a Military Cross at the Battle of Loos. He was killed at the Somme on 1st July 1916. This community aims to identify all those mentioned in the book which include his cousins, friends from school and university, and officers and men of the Devonshire Regiment. To share information, please email: gerrycostellofww @ gmail.com (remove spaces)
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Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Dorsetshire Regiment
More about Maurice Heyward -
Born 1893
Died 1996
British Army Lieutenant London Regiment 8/2nd Battalion
British Army Lieutenant and Acting Captain London Regiment 2/2nd Battalion
British Army Lieutenant and Acting Captain Attached Royal Naval Division
More about Geoffrey Dearmer -
Born 1893
British Army Lieutenant Northumberland Fusiliers
British Army Captain Northumberland Fusiliers
More about Charles Lawrence Courtmay Hodgson -
Born 1891
Died 1915
British Army Lieutenant Border Regiment 6th Battalion
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British Army 16963 Private Royal Welsh Fusiliers
British Army Second Lieutenant South Lancashire Regiment
British Army Acting Captain Devonshire Regiment
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British Army Captain Devonshire Regiment
British Army Major Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
British Army Major Devonshire Regiment
More about Robert John Milne -
British Army Captain Devonshire Regiment
British Army Captain Dorsetshire Regiment
More about Ralph Whitney Mockridge -
British Army Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment
British Army Captain Devonshire Regiment
British Army Major Devonshire Regiment
More about Reginald Poole Pridham -
Died 1919
British Army 1660 Corporal Herefordshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment
British Army Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment
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More about Charles Cecil Thompson -
Born 1893
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment
British Army Temporary Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment
British Army Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment 9th Battalion
More about William Noel Hodgson -
Born 1887
Died 1955
British Army Temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 1st Class Army Chaplain's Department Attached to the 8th and 9th Battalions of the Devonshire Regiment
British Army Temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, The Reverend Army Chaplain's Department
More about Ernest Courtenay Crosse -
British Army Second Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment 9th Battalion
British Army Temporary Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment 9th Battalion
British Army Captain 283rd Machine Gun Company
More about Robert Butland -
Born 1880
Died 1915
British Army Reverend Army Chaplain's Department
British Army Reverend Royal Army Chaplains Department
More about Frederick Whitmore Hewitt -
Born 1863
Died 1915
British Army Brigadier General
British Army Major General Staff
British Army Major-General General Officer Commanding 7th Division
More about Thompson Capper, K. -
Born 1855
Died 1915
British Army Major Devonshire Regiment 8th Battalion
British Army Major Devonshire Regiment
More about Henry Charles Carden -
Born 1893
Died 1917
British Army 2nd Lieutenant Seaforth Highlanders 5th (The Sutherland and Caithness Highland) Battalion
British Army Seaforth Highlanders 4th Seaforth Highlanders
British Army Lieutenant Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-Shire Buffs) 5th (The Sutherland and Caithness Highland) Battalion
More about Ewart Alan Mackintosh -
Born 1883
Died 1915
British Army Second Lieutenant Durham Light Infantry
More about Thomas William Callinan -
Born 1874
Died 1947
British Army Major General GOC 3rd Division
British Army Major West Yorkshire Regiment
British Army Chief of Imperial Staff Various
More about Cyril John Deverell -
Born 1895
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment 9th Battalion
More about Travers Farrant Adamson