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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Born 1896
Died 1915
British Army Second Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment 8th Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment 8th Battalion
Born 1885
Died 1953
British Army Acting Serjeant Bedfordshire Regiment
British Army Lieutenant Colonel Small Arms School
British Army Captain Bedfordshire Regiment
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