HODGINS, Harold
| Service Number: | 2063 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | East Maitland, New South Wales, Australia, 1898 |
| Home Town: | West Maitland, Maitland, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia, 6 August 1976, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-B20. 36. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2063, 30th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 2063, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 2063, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Sydney | |
| 20 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2063, 30th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), SW Left hand | |
| 18 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2063, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
45 years ago today, on the 10th August 1976, Private Harold Victor Thomas Hodgins, 30th Battalion (Reg No-2063), labourer from 25 Devonshire Street, West Maitland, New South Wales and 8 Martindale Street, Wallsend, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 78. PRESBYTERIAN-B20. 36.
Born at East Maitland, New South Wales on the ? ? 1898 to Thomas and Laura Hodgins of 257 High Street, West Maitland, N.S.W.; husband of Nellie Hodgins nee Bunn (married 1927, Adamstown, N.S.W., died 1975), Harold enlisted September 1915 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Wounded in action - 20.7.1916 (SW left hand, Battle of Fromelles).
Admitted to hospital 22.1.1917 (influenza), Harold returned home June 1919, being discharged on the 18th August 1919.
Mr. Hodgins’s name has been inscribed on the Cessnock War Memorial. Name possibly inscribed on the Cessnock Presbyterian Church Honour Board.
Harold’s headstone inscription gives us no indication of his service with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of his sacrifice for God, King and Country.
Older brother John enlisted, but was discharged due to wife's request.
Lest We Forget.
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