Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Bertie John Hodson) in card envelope, nearly extremely fine £80-£100

Bertie John Hodson was born in Cardiff in July 1882, the son of George Marshall Hodson and Ellen Gregory. He married Anna Margarethe Laura Krapf (of German ancestry) and had two children. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regiment, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 July 1916 and was killed in action whilst attached to the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles on 21 March 1918, the first day of the German Spring Offensive. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.