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A Great War KIA Pair & Memorial Plaque awarded to Private William Hodson, 15th (Service) Battalion Durham Light Infantry, killed in action at Polygon Wood, comprising: British War & Victory Medals, 1914-1919 (302680 Pte. W. Hodson. Durh. L. I.), Memorial Plaque, 1914-18 (William Hodson); medals officially impressed, group loose. Well-toned, extremely fine. (3) Private William Hodson was born c.1886 in Shirebrook, near Mansfield, on the border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and had previously worked as a Grocer’s Assistant. Formed in Newcastle in September 1914 as part of Kitchener's Third Army, the 15th Battalion DLI formed part of the 64th Brigade, 21st Division. Private Hodson was killed in action on the 4th of October 1917, the date upon which the 15th Battalion DLI launched a strong attack to the east of Polygon Wood near Joist Farm, suffering so many casualties in the face of German pill-boxes and shell-fire that the survivors of the original four companies were reorganised into just two, and replaced in the attack by a battalion from the KOYLIs. Private Hodson was killed in action at the age of 31, and his is buried at the Tyne Cot Cemetery. Sold with copy MIC and casualty certificate, original box of issue for medals, and original folding cardboard case for the Memorial Plaque (to Mrs G. W[alk]er, 5 Sookholme Lane, Shirebrook, Mansfield), spent and damaged 9mm round, piece of shrapnel, brass button, cap badge and shoulder title, and an extract relating to this attack taken from ‘The Durham Forces in the Field, 1914-18’ by Captain Wilfrid Miles