HODGSON, Sydney
| Service Number: | 3562 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 54th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tighes Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 23 May 1898 |
| Home Town: | Tighes Hill, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Tighes Hill Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Flers, France, 22 October 1916, aged 18 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Berwick Grammar School Honour Avenue Plaque, Tighe's Hill Public School HR, Tighes's Hill Methodist Church Honour Roll, Wickham "Citizens of Wickham" Volunteers Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3562, 20th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3562, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3562, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney | |
| 14 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 54th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 22nd October 1916, Private Sidney Austin Hodgson, sometimes spelt Sydney, 56th Battalion (Reg No-3562), labourer (B.H.P. Steelworks, Newcastle, N.S.W.), from 25 McIsaac Street, Tighes Hill, New South Wales, was Killed in Action, age 18 years 5 months. Cause of death not stated.
No Roll of Honour circular submitted.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Tighes Hill, New South Wales on the 23rd May 1898 to Watson (died 16.6.1933, Wickham, N.S.W., age 82) and Fedelia Hodgson nee Sexton (died 22.5.1924, Wickham, N.S.W., age 65, mother of 8) of 43 Joseph Street, Ashfield, New South Wales and 40 Harrison Street, Smedmore, N.S.W. and 25 McIsaac Street, Tighes Hill, N.S.W., Sid enlisted just 17 years 5 months old with the 20th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on the 20th December 1915.
Admitted to hospital 7.3.1916 (not stated).
Mr. Hodgson’s name has been inscribed on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France.
Place of Association – Tighes Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Sid’s name has also been inscribed on the Tighes Hill Methodist Church Roll of Honour, Tighes Hill Public School Honor Roll, Wickham (Hawkins Oval) Soldiers' Memorial and the Wickham Municipal District Roll of Honour Board. Name probably inscribed on the Tighes Hill Pride of Ferndale Lodge, G.U.O.O.F. Roll of Honour.
Unfortunately, there is no memorial inscription on the Hodgson headstone to tell us of the loss of their son during The Great War, and I am unable to erect a Memorial cross, so I have placed poppies at the gravesite in remembrance of Sid’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) I SW. 11.
Older brother Joseph Thomas Hodgson (born 27.8.1892, Minmi, N.S.W., locomotive fireman from 25 McIssac Street, Tighes Hill, New South Wales and 43 Joseph Street, Ashfield, N.S.W. (1940), enlisted 17.2.1915, 18th Battalion, Reg No-240, wounded in action - 1.8.1916 (GSW forearm, mild), RTA 13.6.1919, 3rd Australian Light Railway Operating Company, died 19.9.1963, Ashfield, N.S.W., age 71, not officially commemorated) also served 1st A.I.F.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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