LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Thomas HODGSON
Service No: 29754
Born: Adelaide SA, 1 September 1893
Enlisted in the RAAF: 29 January 1941 (at Perth WA)
Unit: General Reconnaissance School, Bairnsdale VIC
Died: Illness, Melbourne VIC, 14 April 1944, Aged 50 Years
Buried: Springvale War Cemetery, Melbourne
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Henry and Minnie Hodgson, of Adelaide, South Australia; husband of Elsie May Hodgson, of Ballarat.
Roll of Honour: Adelaide SA
Remembered: Panel 116, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Cenotaph Undercroft, State War Memorial, Kings Park WA
On 14 April 1944, Sergeant Hodgson, a Cook, was on board a train travelling from Bairnsdale to Melbourne when he died suddenly from an illness.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/18/326