Geoffrey Hodgkinson, G Social 1907. Lt, Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action in an unknown engagement

He was the only son of the Rev. F. K. Hodgkinson, Vicar of St. Peter’s, Forest-gate. He represented the school in the cricket and football elevens. On leaving school he entered the Imperial Tobacco Company, Messrs. Lambert and Butler’s branch. He was in an H.A.C. battery before the war began, and immediately on the outbreak he went on active service. serving abroad as a gunner from March to December, 1915. when he returned home, and received a commission in the R.F.A. in January, 1916. He went to France in the following March, and during part of the time he was there in command of his battery.

Aged 24