BASIL+HODGKINSON

Hodgkinson, Basil, Gunner, 168291, 258th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Born Chesterfield, Derby  Enlisted Chesterfield  Died of wounds 10th April 1918, aged 23  Son of Albert and Rosetta Hodgkinson, of 20 Higher Albert Street, Stonegravels, Chesterfield  Buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France, Grave Reference: XXXIII F 5 1911 Census An engineer's clerk Son of Albert Hodgkinson, a journeyman baker, of 20, Higher Albert Street, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Private Basil Hodgkinson (23) eldest son of Mr A Hodgkinson, 20, Higher Albert St, Chesterfield died on April 10th in a General Hospital, France of mustard gas poisoning and a gunshot wound in the right arm, which he received on the same day. A clerk at Sheepbridge Works, he joined the Derbyshire Yeomanry in May 1916 and after three months training was discharged. He re-enlisted in May 1917 in the RGA, he went to France last January. Mr Hodgkinson has received a letter from members of the staff of the Sheepbridge Works. Derbyshire Times 20th April 1918 HODGKINSON In remembrance of Signaller Basil Hodgkinson, who having been gassed, passed to the higher life in Camiera Hospital April 10th 1918 We do not mourn because we know He lives and loves us just the same We are not divided though a grave <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">In France contains his mortal frame <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">From Aunty and Uncle, Brimington <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: right;">Derbyshire Times 12th April 1919
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