Name
Archibald Gordon Hodges
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1916
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 C.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hoddesdon memorials
Marlborough College Roll of Honour
Pre War
Born on 7 Jul 1885 in South Kensington, London son of the Right Rev. Edward Noel Hodges D.D. Bishop of Travancore and Cochin, India and Alice Mary (Gordon) Hodges later Rector of Hoddesdon and educated at Marlborough College 1898-1904 and St. John’s College, Oxford.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in 1915 in the Bedfordshire Regiment from the Oxford University Volunteer Battalion he entered France on 30 Aug 1915. He was severely wounded by a gunshot to the left hip at the Battle of Loos on 26 Sep 1915 and was repatriated to England. After his recovery he returned to France on 27 Apr 1916 and was killed in action on the Somme while C.O. of “D” Company during the assault on the Quadrilateral Redoubt and his body was not recovered.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
