Family :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, South Africa.
• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.

Detail :

After acting a resident clinical assistant at the Barnes Convalescent Hospital, Cheadle, he entered the R.A.M.C. as Lieutenant on 28th January 1899, and during 1899-1900 served in the South African War. He took park in the advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River, and Magersfontein. After serving at Dover for a time he proceeded to India in 1901, and was appointed staff surgeon, Fort William, Culcutta, which appointment he held until 1907, finishing his tour of foreign service at Ranikhet. He was gazetted Captain on 28th January 1902, then Major on 28th October 1910. After serving three years in the London district James was appointed sanitary specialist, Northern Command in 1914. On 1st March 1915 he gained promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel. In August 1916, he was appointed A.D.M.S. 12th Corps, Salonika, and there served, with only one short leave, until his death, which was due to pneumonia, following influenza.

British Medical Journal November 23, 1918. "LIEUT.-COLONEL J. E. HODGSON, R.A.M.C. Officer, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Lieut.-Colonel John Edward Hodgson, R.A.M.C., died at Salonica on November 5th 1918, aged 44, of Pneumonia following influenza. He was born on August 31st, 1874, the son of the late Caleb Hodgson of Carlisle, and educated at Owens College, Manchester, taking the diplomas of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P.Lond. in 1898, and the D.P.H. of the London Colleges in 1913. After acting as resident clinical assistant at the Barnes Convalescent Hospital, Cheadle, Manchester, he entered the R.A.M.C. as lieutenant on January 28th, 1899, becoming Captain on January 28th, 1902, Major on October 28th, 1910, and Lieutenant-Colonel on March lst, 1915"

Also appears in the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps (part of the BMJ archives.)
"HODGSON. - On November 5, at Salonika, of pneumonia following influenza, Lieut.-Col. John Edward Hodgson, Royal Army Medioal Corps, dearly loved husband of Winifred Hodgson,4, South Mount Terrace, York, aged 44."

For his service in South Africa he was awarded the Queen's medal with two clasps.

Masonic :

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley