George Benjamin Hodson

Brigadier General George Benjamin Hodson, CB, DSO (October 1863 – 25 January 1916) was a British Indian Army officer. He died of wounds sustained at Suvla during the Gallipoli campaign, while in command of the 33rd Indian Brigade.

He was commissioned as a subaltern, with the rank of lieutenant, into the South Staffordshire Regiment of the British Army in May 1882, after graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[1]

He was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general in October 1915.[2]

References

  1. ^ "No. 25105". The London Gazette. 9 May 1882. p. 2157.
  2. ^ "No. 29352". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 November 1915. p. 10898.
  • Davis, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (1995). Bloody Red Tabs - General Officer Casualties of the Great War, 1914–1918. London: Leo Cooper, p. 73.
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