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Hook, Valentine, fourth son of Bryan Hook, of Churt, Farnham, Surrey, by Catherine Moseley, daughter of John Dewrance, of Tilford, in the same co.; b. May 22, 1895; adm. Jan. 20, 1910 (R); left July 1913; went to Cirencester Agricultural Coll. with a view to farming in British East Africa; 2nd Lieut. 7th (Service) Batt. the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt.) Nov. 2, 1914; went out to the western front in the summer of 1915; Lieut. Sept. 17, 1915; wounded at Montauban in July 1916; Capt. Nov. 1916; mentioned in despatches; killed in action at Cherisy, near Arras, May 3, 1917; unm.

Hodgson, George William Houghton, eldest son of the Rev. William George Courtenay Hodgson, Rector of Distington, Cumberland, by Catharine Mary, only daughter of William Harrison, of Penrith, barrister-at-law; b. Oct. 21, 1888; adm. Jan. 15, 1903 (G); left July 1907; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1907; B.A. 1912; 2nd Lieut. 2nd Batt. the Border Regt. Sept. 19, 1911; Lieut. Oct. 17, 1914; mentioned in Sir John French's despatch of Jan. 14, 1915; d. in the Military Hospital, Boulogne, Nov. 6, 1914, from wounds received in action Nov. 2, 1914; unm.

Hobson, Geoffrey Hamilton, brother of Eric Hamilton Hobson (q.v.); b. Sept. 1898; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (A); left Dec. 1913; entered Melle Coll., near Ghent, where he remained until the outbreak of Great War I; enlisted in the 28th (Co. of London) Batt. the London Regt. (Artists' Rifles) Jan. 11, 1915, and went out to the western front in Aug. 1915; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. the Hampshire Regt. Nov. 6, 1916; d. April 14, 1917, of wounds received in action at Arras April 9, 1917; umm.

Hicks, Eric Raymond, second son of Charles Oliver Hicks, of Ealing, by Ellen Louisa, daughter of William Hedges, of Ealing; b. March 3, 1897; adm. May 4, 1911 (A); left July 1914; joined the Inns of Court O. T. C. Aug. 1, 1915; 2nd Lieut. R. F. A. Nov. 26, 1915; Lieut.; served on the western front July to Nov. 1916, at Salonika Nov. 1916 - May 1917, and sub­ sequently in Palestine, where he acted as Intelligence Officer on Headquarters Staff and as A.D.C. to Generals Drake and Robinson; M.C. Jan. 1, 1917; d. of pneumonia at 17th Military Hospital, Alexandria, Dec. 25, 1918; unm.

Hepburn, George, brother of Jonathan King Hepburn (q.v.); b. March 3, 1888; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (R); left July 1905; readm. Jan. 1906; left July 1906; passed into the Technical Coll., South Kensington, 1906; took B.Sc., and won a nomination to the R.E. at Chatham for one year 1909; obtained an appointment at Rosyth 1910; entered the Indian Public Works Dept. as asst. engineer 1911; returned to England May 1916; 2nd Lieut. R.E. July 1916; Lieut. Jan. 1, 1918; went out to the western front Feb. 1917, and served with the 98th Field Co.; killed in action at Driencourt, near Peronne, France, March 22, 1918; umm.

Helsdon, Harold Leofric, eldest son of Horace John Helsdon, F.R.I.B.A., of Regent's Park, by Flora, eldest daughter of W. Franklin Dickson, of Hendon, Middlesex; b. Nov. 18, 1896; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 22, 1910 (A); left Easter 1915; entered the Inns of Court O. T. C.; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. (Reserve) Dorsetshire Regt. July 28, 1915; was attached to 1/7th Batt. Royal Warwickshire Regt., and went out to the western front in June 1916; acted first as bombing officer, and afterwards as intelligence officer; killed in night patrol work near Butte de Warlencourt Nov. 25-6, 1916; unm.

Heigham-Plumptre, Leslie Grantham, son of John Vallis Nicholl Plumptre, of London, solicitor, by Mary Ling; b. Oct. 9, 1897; adm. Sept. 26, 1907 (A); migrated up Grant's; left Easter 1913; H. M. S. Worcester training ship; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1917; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. Beds. Regt. Sept. 12, 1917, attached R. F. C. Dec. 1917; went out to the western front March 11, 1918, and was wounded on March 22 and invalided home; returned to the western front May 19; d. at Riquier, near Abbeville, France, June 4, 1918, of injuries acci­dentally received when starting on a bombing raid on June 2.