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Auction: 22102 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction VI - e-Auction
Lot: 376

A pair of casualty groups to Brothers

Pair: Private G. Hoodless, Northumberland Fusiliers, late 9th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (29344 Pte. G. Hoodless. York. R.), contact wear, nearly very fine (2)

Pair: Private E. H. Hoodless, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (43605 Pte. E. H. Hoodless. Notts. & Derby. R.), minor contact wear, very fine (2)

George Willows Hoodless was born at Guatby, Lincolnshire on 7 February 1887, the son of Barnabas and Lucy Hoodless of South Renton, Lincolnshire. Having worked as a Gamekeeper prior to enlistment he joined the Yorkshire Regiment and was posted to the 9th Battalion. This Battalion saw action on the Somme, at Passchendaele and Cambrai, Hoodless was discharged from the Northumbrian Fusiliers after the Great War with the number 79599. Returning to his work as a Gamekeeper by 1939 he had been promoted to Head Keeper and was living at Newshaw Lodge, Caister, Lincolnshire. Hoodless died at Lincoln County Hospital, Lincolnshire on 19 May 1956.

Edward Hackford Hoodless was born at South Reston, Lincolnshire in January 1881, the son of Barnabas and Lucy Hoodless of South Renton, Lincolnshire. Finding work as an Agricultural Labour at Old Rectory House, Gayton-Le-Marsh for Edmund Jackson, a local farmer in 1901. Remaining in agriculture he became a Waggoneer on Langlands Farm, Withern, Alford. Enlisting with the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) he served throughout the war being admitted to 31st Ambulance Train on 15 November 1916 suffering from Rheumatism. Hoodless survived the war and died on 11 December 1936 at Louth, Lincolnshire.

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