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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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British Army Lieutenant and Armourers Devonshire Regiment
British Army Captain King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
British Army Captain Labour Corps
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Born 1894
Died 1958
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British Army Captain Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1 Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1916
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British Army Private Royal Fusiliers 17th Battalion
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Died 1915
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Born 1892
Died 1915
British Army 10954 Private Devonshire Regiment
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Born 1895
Died 1918
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Born 1888
Died 1914
British Army Second Lieutenant Border Regiment
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Died 1917
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Born 1876
Died 1918
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Born 1888
British Army Captain Devonshire Regiment
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Born 1869
Died 1915
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Died 1916
British Army 1204 Private London Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment
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British Army Middlesex Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment
British Army Major Devonshire Regiment
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Born 1894
Died 1979
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Born 1886
Died 1916
British Army Captain Devonshire Regiment 9th Battalion
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Born 1893
Died 1916
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