South Yorkshire Times, September 2nd 1944
B.E.M. – Cpl. F. E. Hodgson
The London Gazette announces the award of the British Empire Medal to Cpl. F. E. Hodgson of Conisbrough for carrying out a hazardous duty.
Cpl. Hodgson is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Hodgson of Yew Terrace, Low Road, Conisbrough and he has been in the Army since the outbreak of war. He was a reservist and went to France in 1939 and was there when France fell in 1940. He was evacuated from St. Malo.
For the past three years he has been in a bomb disposal squad and has latterly been tackling flying bombs.
Before the war Cpl. Hodgson managed a grocery business for his father in Low Road, Conisbrough. He was captain of the Conisbrough Ivanhoe Cycling Cub, and won a championship trophy in 1938. He married in 1940 the daughter of the late Mr. A. E. Liversidge, a well-known Denaby business man.