HODGSON, John Reginald (1898-1961)
HODGSON, John Reginald (1898-1961)
John Hodgson was born 2 June 1898, the son of John Hodgson and Margaret nee Reseigh, of Cope Cope near St Arnaud in Victoria. Educated at Geelong College 1913-15, he was in the 1st XVIII and 1st XI in his last year and had been in the Senior Cadets for 3 years.
He passed his riding test and volunteered for service in Egypt, enlisting (No 72212) as a trooper in the Light Horse, and became a sergeant for the voyage. He embarked from Perth, but contracted either pneumonia or rheumatic fever, requiring the boat to turn back and drop him at Perth, he then returned home by train.
He died in 1961 in Balwyn, Victoria.
John Hodgson was born 2 June 1898, the son of John Hodgson and Margaret nee Reseigh, of Cope Cope near St Arnaud in Victoria. Educated at Geelong College 1913-15, he was in the 1st XVIII and 1st XI in his last year and had been in the Senior Cadets for 3 years.
He passed his riding test and volunteered for service in Egypt, enlisting (No 72212) as a trooper in the Light Horse, and became a sergeant for the voyage. He embarked from Perth, but contracted either pneumonia or rheumatic fever, requiring the boat to turn back and drop him at Perth, he then returned home by train.
He died in 1961 in Balwyn, Victoria.
Source
Based on an edited extract from Geelong Collegians at the Great War compiled by James Affleck. p 215 (citing Pegasus; Australian War Memorial; Hodgson Family Papers)