Name
Albert Edward Hodsden
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/08/1918
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
69444
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MEAULTE MILITARY CEMETERY
F. 19.
France
Headstone Inscription
HAVE FAITH IN GOD MARK 11.22
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Wall Memorial, Potten End, Not on the Berkhamsted Memorials
Pre War
Albert Edward Hodsden was born in 1899 in Haresfoot Park, Berkhamsted, the son of Charles and Margaret Hodsden and youngest of five children.
On the 1901 Census, the family were living at Harefoot Farm Cottage, Great Berkhamsted, and his father was working as a Stockman on the Farm. By 1911 they had moved to Felden, Boxmoor, Bovingdon, Herts, when Albert was an 11 year old scholar.
His parents later lived at Council Cottages, Potten End, Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
He initially enlisted with the East Surrey Regiment (reg. no. 38461), later transferring to the 6th Btn The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment).
He was killed in action at Meaulte on 23 August 1918 during the Hundred Days Offensive (a series of massive Allied offensives which ended the First World War, and is buried at Meaulte Military Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
Brother to Ernest Charles Hodsden who was killed in action in France on 17 May 1915 and is named on the Le Touret Memorial. His father received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £4 12s 9d. His mother received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, dacorumheritage.org.uk
