![]() ![]() His first major offensive came on 25 September during the Battle of Loos. For the first year of the War he was training in England, before landing at Le Havre on 28 July 1915 and being sent to trenches near Festubert. Known as "Smiler" to his friends, he volunteered for the British Army on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and served in the 9th Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment. He took a first in Classical Moderations in March 1913 and decided to stay and do Greats. He left Durham in July 1911, with Gallipoli war poet and friend Nowell Oxland, for Oxford University where he was an exhibitioner of Christ Church. He steered in the second crew in 1907 was in the XI, 1910, 1911 and in the XV, 1910. He entered into The School House of Durham School in September 1905 on a King's Scholarship. He was born at Thornbury, near Bristol, but the family soon moved to Berwick-upon-Tweed. ![]() Hodgson was the fourth and youngest child of Henry Bernard Hodgson, the first Bishop of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich. During the First World War, he published stories and poems under the pen name Edward Melbourne. William Noel Hodgson MC (3 January 1893 – 1 July 1916) was an English poet. ![]()
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