Henry Hodgson (British Army officer)
Henry West Hodgson | |
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First World War
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Awards | (Italy) |
He was the Regimental Colonel of the
Early life
Henry West Hodgson was born 29 June 1868 the second son of Barnard Beckett Hodgson. His elder brother Barnard Thornton Hodgson was a
Military career
Hodgson joined the
First World War
By the time the First World War began in August 1914 he was in command of the
Following the Allied withdrawal he went to Egypt and fought with the
Later career
Hodgson was promoted to substantive major-general on 1 January 1919, having only been a substantive colonel and a temporary major-general beforehand.[11] For his service in the Middle East he was awarded the Order of the Nile (Second Class) in November 1919, by the Sultan of Egypt,[12] and the Military Order of Savoy by Italy.[13]
He later became the Regimental Colonel of the 14th King's Hussars overseeing the amalgamation with the 20th Hussars when they became the 14th/20th King's Hussars. His last command was the 44th (Home Counties) Division before retiring from the army in 1927.[14] Henry West Hodgson died in London on 5 February 1930, and was buried at St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bolney, England.[15]
Footnotes
- ^ a b "Major General Sir Henry West Hodgson". War Memorials. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- ^ "Biographies of Legal Lunacy Commissioners and Secretaries 1832–1912". Middlesex University. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- ^ "No. 26468". The London Gazette. 19 December 1893. p. 7388.
- ^ "No. 27143". The London Gazette. 12 December 1899. p. 8328.
- ^ "No. 28454". The London Gazette. 6 January 1911. p. 124.
- ^ Addison et al, p.1008
- ^ "No. 28540". The London Gazette. 10 October 1911. p. 7376.
- ^ Chappell, PB. "3rd Dismounted Brigade". The Regimental Warpath 1914–18. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ^ Murland & Murland 2008, p. 74.
- ^ "Major-General Henry Hodgson". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- ^ "No. 31093". The London Gazette. 31 December 1918. p. 54.
- ^ "No. 31659". The London Gazette. 25 November 1919. p. 14635.
- ^ Carnock, p.257
- ^ "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "Henry West Hodgson". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
References
- Henry Robert Addison; Charles Henry Oakes; William John Lawson; Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1914). Who's who, Volume 66; Volume 1. A. & C. Black.
- Carnock, Frederick Archibald Nicolson (1932). The history of the 15th The King's Hussars, 1914–1922. Crypt House Press.
- Murland, Jenny; Murland, Jerry (2008). Departed Warriors: The Story of a Family in War. Troubador Publishing. ISBN 978-1906510701.