A Second World War and later 'Dieppe Raid' medal group of six awarded to Staff Sergeant L.H Hodgson, Royal Engineers, late Canadian Army Medical Corps. 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Service Medal, 1939-34 War Medal and 1918-62 General Service Medal with Malaya clasp [22562028 S/SGT. L.H HODGSON, R.E]

Sold together with a copy of a newspaper article from September 17th, 1942, describing Hodgson's involvement in the raid, together with photocopied portraits of Hodgson and his wife. Louis Hodgson of Twin Cities (Canada) enlisted in October 1939 with the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment and was posted overseas a month later. From 1940-42, he served with the medical corps as an instructor in chemical warfare, anatomy and other related subjects. Overseas, he held the rank of sergeant but reverted to the ranks to return home as a conducting orderly.

Hodgson's medical corps unit landed in the third wave at Dieppe and tended to the dying and wounded. The article states "Two regiments tried to get in front of them but were driven back. 'Then the machine guns went in and opened a way for us', he stated. Hodgson was with the advance dressing station. 'Men dropped like flies' he told a Record reporter. 'And the majority of them went down in a half hour after the first landing". During the raid, a piece of shrapnel struck his left arm but he dressed the wound and carried on working.

Provenance: Spinks, London.