HODGES, George Cyrl Edwards

Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey UKCredit: Gary Newman

Aircaftman 1st Class
RAF Mullaghmore, Northern Ireland
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

George was born 1902 in Newport to George James & Charlotte Ann (nee TAVERNER) HODGES. In 1933 at the Methodist Church in Birmingham Road, Cowes he married Evelyn Grace HINKS who was living in Aldershot, Hampshire around the time of George’s death.

George, aged 42, died on the 18th of September 1944 from a coronary thrombosis. George rests at the Brookwood Military Cemetery in Woking, Surrey beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WE LOVE IS NOT TO DIE”, alongside 3,475 of his Second World War comrades.

George is also remembered on the Cowes War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.