W. N. Hodgson
1893–1916 (age 23)
Biography
W. N. Hodgson, born in 1893, was a poet whose verses gave voice to the hopes and sorrows of his time, writing with quiet honesty even as the war pressed in.
He fell in 1916, and Devonshire Cemetery now keeps his memory, where readers still discover the depth of his brief but resonant words.