Harold Augustus Hodges was an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 sportsman and soldier who played international rugby union

Rugby union

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 for England

England national rugby union team

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. He also played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 for Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...

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Hodges, a prop, was capped twice for England in the 1906 Home Nations Championship

1906 Home Nations Championship

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. He took part in their losses to Wales

Wales national rugby union team

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 and Ireland

Ireland national rugby union team

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. At club level he played for Nottingham

Nottingham R.F.C.

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 and while studying at Trinity College

Trinity College

-Australia:* Trinity Catholic College Lismore, a Catholic secondary school in New South Wales* Trinity College , part of the University of Melbourne, in Melbourne, Victoria* Trinity College, Gawler, Adelaide, South Australia...

 in 1908 was captain of the Oxford University RFC

Oxford University RFC

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In 1911 he made his first-class cricket debut, against Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 at the Miners Welfare Ground

Miners Welfare Ground

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 in Blackwell

Blackwell, Bolsover

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. He made his highest first-class score of 62 in his only innings, which the highest by a Nottinghamshire player in a low scoring match and bettered by only Derbyshire's Arthur Morton

Arthur Morton (cricketer, born 1883)

Arthur Morton was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire and MCC between 1903 and 1926. He made over 10,000 runs and took nearly 1000 wickets.Morton was born at Mellor, Derbyshire...

, who was the one that dismissed Hodges. The following year he made two further appearances and finished his first-class career with 141 runs, at an average of 47.

During World War I

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, Hodges served with the 3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment. On the night of 22 March 1918, he entered a small factory on a road between Ham

Ham, Somme

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 and Eppeville

Eppeville

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, hoping to make contact with a British battalion. He instead encountered enemy troops and was shot dead.