Source: Earned the Military Medal for “Bravery in the Field” during the actions at the Somme September 1916.
Family Search: When Private Frederick William Hodson was born on 28 May 1891, in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Sydney Hodson, was 25 and his mother, Charlotte Berrill, was 28. He married Elizabeth Swift on 24 December 1914, in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He immigrated to Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States in 1942 and lived in Rushden, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and Pittsford, Pittsford, Monroe, New York, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1914. He died on 18 April 1966, in Hespeler, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 74, and was buried in Memory Gardens, Breslau, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 