John Colman HODGETTS

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HODGETTS, John Colman

Service Number:	SX10525
Enlisted:	1 August 1940
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 22 November 1918
Home Town:	Toorak Gardens, Burnside, South Australia
Schooling:	St Peter's College, Hackney, South Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, Egypt, 17 July 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	El Alamein War Cemetery, Marsa Matruh, Egypt Block A, Plot 11, Row J, Grave 6 Roll of Honour - Burnside SA,
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hackney St Peter's College WW2 Honour Roll

World War 2 Service

1 Aug 1940:	Enlisted SX10525, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
17 Jul 1942:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Captain, SX10525, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Charles Weston Lees Hodgetts and Nora Helen(nee Colman) Hodgetts of Toorak Gardens, SA; brother of Shelia Helen Hodgetts and Diana Lees Hodgetts

Biography contributed by David Cowan

The following obituary was published in the South Australian newspaper, The Mail, on 25 July 1942:

Captain John Colman Hodgetts, 23, only son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. L. Hodgetts, of Grant avenue, Toorak. whose death in action in Egypt was reported this week, was always keen on military work, and at one time before the war was the youngest captain in the A.M.F. Educated at St. Peter's College, he was interested in many kinds of sport, and played inter - collegiate football for several years. Capt. Hodgetts was in the office of his father, a member of the Adelaide Stock Exchange, when he enlisted for active service. He had been serving abroad since November, 1940, and was in the first Tobruk compaign for eight months. His cousin. Gunner H. G. Hodgetts, writing to his wife in Adelaide, told how the cousins, together with other old associates, had only recently met unexpectedly for the first time since leaving Adelaide two years ago.

Source: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200100880 (The National Library of Australia focuses on digitising newspapers published before 1955 on the general understanding that they are out of copyright.)

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