Stanley Hodge

Service number: 1813

Rank: Lance Corporal

Unit: 1 Battalion Australian Machine Gun Corps

Service: Australian Army

Date of death: 5 May 1918

Cause of death: Died of wounds

Cemetery or memorial details: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France

War Grave Register notes:

HODGE, Lce. Cpl. Stanley, 1813. 1st Bn. Australian Machine Gun Corps. Died of wounds 5th May, 1918. Son of John and Florence Hodge, of Harrington, 57 Kangaroo St., Manly, New South Wales. IX. B. 45.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army

Stanley Hodge was born at Burwood. He was a warehouseman. He enlisted in February 1915.

He contracted enteric fever at Gallipoli serving with the 1st Field Ambulance, and was sent home for recuperation in Australia.

He then served in France. He was promoted to lance-corporal on 10 April 1918 and attached to the 1st Machine Gun Bn.

He was wounded at Wimereux on 2 May 1918, and died of his wounds on 5 May.