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Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902, (3) clasps, Hodgson, Vol. Company, West Yorkshire Regt. who later emigrated to Canada
Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902, (3) clasps, Hodgson, Vol. Company, West Yorkshire Regt. who later emigrated to Canada
Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902, (3) clasps, Hodgson, Vol. Company, West Yorkshire Regt. Emigrated to Canada
6957 PTE A. HODGSON. VOL. COY W. YORK: REGT
(3 bars - Transvaal, South Africa 1901 & South Africa 1902)
GVF, edge nick on obv. With silver suspension brooch as worn.
Arthur Hodgson was born July 1880 at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire to a Stonemason and was a 4th year apprentice in Leeds when he attested on 29th March 1900 in 2nd Volunteer Service Company The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince Of Wale’s Own), attached to 2nd Battalion The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince Of Wales Own). Post war he emigrated to Canada in 1906, married in Winnipeg in 1908 and by 1921 was Farming at Nanaimo, British Columbia, he died at Haney, B.C. (outside Vancouver) on 20 Feb. 1977.
