Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal G. H. Hodgkinson, Royal Garrison Artillery, who died of wounds on 26 June 1917
Military Medal, G.V.R. (53021 Gnr., X.1/T.M. By. R.G.A.); 1914-15 Star (53021 Gnr., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (53021 Cpl., R.A.)

Three: Private S. Hodgkinson, Lincolnshire Regiment
1914-15 Star (18037 Pte., Linc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (18037 Pte., Linc. R.) this group fine; first group extremely fine (7) £350-450

M.M. London Gazette 14 September 1916.

Charles Harry Hodgkinson was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Living with his parents in Eccles, Lancashire and employed as a Farmhand, he enlisted at Chesterfield on 4 November 1914, aged 20 years. Serving with the R.G.A. he entered into the France/Flanders theatre of war on 30 May 1915. He was posted to No. 2 Trench Battery in June 1915 - the battery becoming IX Trench Battery in March 1916. With that unit he was wounded on 29 March 1916 - suffering a gunshot wound to the thigh. Later that year he was awarded the Military Medal. Having recovered and then serving with the 9th Trench Mortar Battery, he died of wounds on 26 June 1917, aged 22 years. He was buried in the Coxyde Military Cemetery. He was the son of John and Mary Alice Hodgkinson, of 6 Irwell Park, Eccles, Lancashire.

Private Sydney Hodgkinson, 6th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, entered the Balkan theatre of war on 1 December 1915. The two are possibly brothers. With copied research.