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the writer of the night land and house on the borderland william hope hodgson skip to content home about chronology contact me whh bio older posts april 19 2018 10 59 am 100 years ago today a nice profile shot of whh in uniform likely around 1916 or so today april 19 th marks 100 years since the death of william hope hodgson by 1918 world war i the great war had been raging for nearly four years since its beginning in july 1914 when the war finally ended in november 1918 the world had been changed the european map had to be redrawn with the destruction of four empires an estimated nine million combatants and seven million civilians including victims of several genocides not the least of which was the attempted extermination of the entire armenian population by the ottoman empire died as a result of the conflict many of the casualties were results of the increased technological and industrial advances which made new methods of war such as chemical warfare possible the great war effectively eliminated almost an entire generation of young men and also had a powerful impact on the world of art and literature the war claimed the lives of wilfred owen poet alain fournier novelist august macke painter h h munro writer and many others in the 1989 collection the lost voices of world war i an international anthology of writers poets and playwrights tim cross presents a list of approximately 750 names while commenting that a complete list of all poets playwrights writers artists architects and composers who died as a result of the first world war is an impossible task william hope hodgson is a part of that long sad list when war broke out in 1914 hodgson was still living in france with his wife bessie they had been married for only a few months more than a year hodgson with typical patriotic fever rushes back to england to enlist while sending his wife back to live with his mother and sister in borth in july of 1915 hodgson is commissioned as a lieutenant in the 171 st battery of the royal field artillery he adamantly refuses to join the royal navy despite his more than ample qualifications for sea duty it has been noted by many that this is indeed ironic because had hodgson joined the royal navy he would have had a far greater chance of surviving the war shortly under a year later in june of 1916 hodgson is thrown from a horse and suffers a broken jaw and major concussion and is sent home to recover r alain everts makes the contention that this injury will follow hodgson for the rest of his brief life no doubt his commanding officer and division had thought that the injury would have been enough to end hodgson s participation in the war but true to form hodgson refused to accept the limitations of his body relying on his knowledge of physical culture hodgson pushes himself back to health and re enlists this time he is assigned to the 84 th battery and sent to france in october of 1917 at this point he has less than six months to live during the spring of 1918 the 84 th battery participates in a series of battles and is part of the efforts to turn back the german army s push everts recounts hodgson s final days on 12 march 1918 the brigade took over positions at brombeck and on 20 march sustained heavy gas shelling and high velocity shelling at the tourelle crossroads nearby on 30 march they were relieved by belgian artillery and on 2 april the battery marched to the ploegsteert area to relieve australian artillery this was to be the scene of the final act of hodgson s valiant life the battery took a position at le touquet berthe the front was quite silent for a time and for the first time there were no casualties in action on 9 march the germans attacked south of the armentieres and penetrated allied lines for some distance and forced the british to move further north from steenbeke on the dawn of the following day the battery had undergone heavy night shelling and all communications were cut the germans advanced and the front section of the battery had to retreat leaving behind their guns which they blew up the germans circled behind hope s battery and approached to within 200 yards forcing the whole detachment to fall back on the day of 10 april 1918 the germans launched a big attack and apparently this put hodgson in hospital briefly on the night of 16 april the battery withdrew and a forward observation post was set up the man who volunteered for the forward observing office the next day 17 april on mont kemmel was none other than w hope hodgson the details surrounding the tragic death of hope can now be clarified after nearly 55 years and in clarifying them some errors regarding his death have been corrected his commanding officer filled in the details on thursday 18 april he sent hodgson with another n c o on forward observation on 19 april hope was heard from once and then there was silence from him for the remainder of the day that day 19 april william hope hodgson was reported missing in action to his c o the following day under continuous fire the c o went to check himself to determine the fate of his f o o s he eventually found a french officer who showed him a helmet with the name lt w hope hodgson on it and reported that a british artillery officer and a signaler had suffered a direct hit by a german artillery shell on 19 april and had both been blown nearly completely apart what little remained was buried on the spot at the foot of the eastern slope of mont kemmel in belgium during this period the c o was under continuous fire and upon his return to base he confirmed the death of lt w hope hodgson and it was entered on 23 april 1 photo of german artillery barrage at ypres hodgson s commanding officer wired the heart breaking news to hodgson s mother and wrote i cannot express my deep sympathy for you in your great bereavement i feel it most terribly myself and so do all the other officers and men of the battery he was the life and soul of the mess always so willing and cherry of his courage i can give no praise that is high enough he was always volunteering for any dangerous duty and it was owing to his entire lack of fear that he probably met his death on april 17 he had performed wonders of gallantry only a few days before and it is a miracle that he survived that day i myself am deeply grieved having lost a real true friend and a splendid officer 2 hodgson s obituary appeared in newspapers around the world signifying his stature in the writing world of these many notices the times is perhaps the most poignant second lieutenant w hope hodgson rfa killed in action on april 17 was the second son of the late rev samuel hodgson and the author of the boats of the glen carrig the night land men of the deep waters and other books his early days were spent in the merchant service where he gathered his material for many of his thrilling sea stories he was a notable athlete a fine boxer a strong swimmer and an all round good sportsman he was awarded the royal humane society s medal for saving life at sea at the outbreak of the war lieutenant hodgson was living in sanary on the south coast of france he returned to england joined the university of london officer training corps and got his commission in the rfa in 1915 as the result of a serious accident in camp he was gazetted out of the army in 1916 but he never rested until he passed the medical board as fit and obtained another commission in march 1917 in the rfa he saw much active service round ypres during last october 3 there was nothing left of hodgson s body to send home this was not an uncommon experience in war many soldiers died in foreign lands with nothing left to send back home to their grieving families what often takes their place are memorial cemeteries that honor those who had fallen there is one such cemetery in belgium at tyne cot cemetery william hope hodgson s name is engraved like many casualties of war we are left to wonder what hodgson could have accomplished if he had not died so tragically young it seems almost certain that hodgson would have returned to writing as a source of income at the time of his death hodgson had been concentrating more on adventure stories and serial characters it had been years since he had written a novel but there is a chance that his experiences could have inspired him back to that form although we have very little in terms of letters from hodgson we do have this excerpt courtesy of sam moskowitz where hodgson writes to his mother the sun was pretty low as i came back and far off across that desolation here and there they showed just formless squarish cornerless masses erected by man against the infernal storm that sweeps for ever night and day day and night across that most atrocious plain of destruction my god talk about a lost world talk about the end of the world talk about the night land it is all here not more than two hundred odd miles from where you sit infinitely remote and the infinite monstrous dreadful pathos of the things one sees the great shell hole with over thirty crosses sticking in it some just up out of the water and the dead below them submerged if i live and come somehow out of this and certainly please god i shall and hope to what a book i shall write if my old ability with the pen has not forsaken me 4 one hundred years ago today william hope hodgson walked his own path to that plain of destruction never to come out again william hope hodgson 1877 1918 notes 1 everts r alain some facts in the case of william hope hodgson master of fantasy soft books 1987 2 ibid 3 ibid 4 moskowitz sam out of the storm uncollected fantasies by william hope hodgson donald m grant 1973 share this share on reddit opens in new window reddit tweet email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr print opens in new window print like loading 2 comments filed under william hope hodgson april 17 2018 10 08 am on what day did hodgson die determining the exact day when william hope hodgson was killed is not as easy as one would think in most cases especially those during wartime the day and time of death is usually carefully noted this is because generally there are either witnesses or evidence that can be used to make such determinations unfortunately in hodgson s case there are conflicting reports some give the day of hodgson s death as april 17 th some as april 18 th and still others as april 19 th r alain everts gives this account of hodgson s final days on the day of 10 april 1918 the germans launched a big attack and apparently this put hodgson in hospital briefly on the night of 16 april the battery withdrew and a forward observation post was set up the man who volunteered for the forward observing office the next day 17 april on mont kemmel was none other than w hope hodgson the details surrounding the tragic death of hope can now be clarified after nearly 55 years and in clarifying them some errors regarding his death have been corrected his commanding officer filled in the details on thursday 18 april he sent hodgson with another n c o on forward observation on 19 april hope was heard from once and then there was silence from him for the remainder of the day that day 19 april william hope hodgson was reported missing in action to his c o the following day under continuous fire the c o went to check himself to determine the fate of his f o o s he eventually found a french officer who showed him a helmet with the name lt w hope hodgson on it and reported that a british artillery officer and a signaler had suffered a direct hit by a german artillery shell on 19 april and had both been blown nearly completely apart what little remained was buried on the spot at the foot of the eastern slop of mont kemmel in belgium during this period the c o was under continuous fire and upon his return to base he confirmed the death of lt w hope hodgson and it was entered on 23 april the official report was forwarded to england and most likely it specified that hodgson was killed the previous week since it was recorded on the official register in london and the death certificate rolls as 17 april on 24 april the germans attacked the right flank of the 84 th battery and the following day they launched another large attack during all this confusion it is not difficult to see how an error came to be made in fact the c o s memory for details after 55 years proves to be quite accurate for on 17 april no f o o s were sent out according to the official diary of the brigade 1 this would seem to be a very straight forward account of the event on the 18 th hodgson and another man set up the forward observation post on the 19 th a report is sent in and received when no other word arrives from the post the commanding officer himself goes in search of his men on april 20 th and is told that the two men were literally blown to pieces by a mortar shell on the 19 th the primary confusion regarding this date comes from two sources the entry on the death certificate rolls and from sam moskowitz s biographical essay about hodgson this would appear to be a case of the former creating the latter pictured below is a photo hodgson s military service card which lists his enlistment and death dates this notes the date of death as the 17 th and is supportive of the claims in the everts article in his introduction to out of the storm sam moskowitz quotes hodgson s good friend a st john adcock describing the events as a week or two later on the 17 th of april 1918 he was killed in action whilst serving as an observation officer 2 moskowitz although quoting st john adcock himself writes evidence points to the fact hodgson actually was killed april 19 1918 3 it is confusing why if moskowitz had such evidence he would repeat the erroneous date of april 17 th that st john adcock likely took from the official record why present the one date if you believe and have supporting evidence that it was a different date unfortunately misinformation abounds and even more so in our electronic age those who are simply looking for a quick answer to a date may take the first they see or what is presented on an official report so let me state for the record that based on the information quoted by everts and which i believe moskowitz was also privy to william hope hodgson was killed on april 19 1918 please join us in two days for a memorial to hodgson on what will be the centennial of his unfortunate death notes 1 everts r alain some facts in the case of william hope hodgson master of fantasy soft books 1987 2 moskowitz sam out of the storm uncollected fantasies by william hope hodgson donald m grant 1973 for more of everts excellent biographical article i refer you to this blog entry https williamhopehodgson wordpress com 2013 05 17 the life of william hope hodgson part 1 portrait of hodgson by dave felton an excellent artist and gentleman share this share on reddit opens in new window reddit tweet email a 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