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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 494

A tragic Anzio casualty's campaign group of four awarded to Lance Corporal F. H. P. Hodgson, 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), who was killed in action during the advance on Campoleone on 31 January 1944

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, sold together with named medal slip of issue and named medal box of issue, good very fine (4)

Francis Henry Priestley Hodgson was a native of Nottingham, an article in the Nottingham Evening Post notes that he lived at '71, Wiverton-road, Forest Fields, Nottingham. It goes on to state:

'Before joining up, he was a well-known cornet player in the Special Constabulary Band, the British Legion, the Saxa-Tuba Military Band, and the Railway Silver Prize Band.'

He served with the 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters in Africa before joining them for the campaign in Africa before they went into action at the Anzio landings. The battalion faced extremely heavy combat during the initial landings before joining the 1st Division advancing on Campoleone, about 15 miles north of Anzio.

They went into the attack there on 31 January 1944 at 10:30, attacking towards the station but suffered heavy losses. Two further attacks, one with tank support saw them suffer losses of approximately half the Battalion, the end of the action saw them withdraw entirely from the town.

Hodgson was buried at the Anzio War Cemetery, his medals were sent to his widow Winifred Beatrice
Hodgson who had by then remarried, taking the name of Woodrow, sold together with copied research.

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£130