Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC and other Headstones -
- Northwood Cemetery (Cowes) : E F E Hodges -

Location

In Northwood Cemetery, Cowes, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Additional Memorial stone on another grave.

Headstone


 

Inscription


 
Further Information

CWGC record ...

Where buried or commemorated :	Runnymede Memorial
Squadron :	58 Sqn
Aircraft :	Whitley Mk.V Z6841 GE-F
Crew :
Pilot :	P/O M J Hunt, RNZAF	CWGC record ...
2nd Pilot :	WO.II J Lynch, RCAF	CWGC record ...
Observer :	Sgt E F E Hodges	CWGC record ...
Air Gunner :	Sgt I Allan	CWGC record ...

The aircraft took off at 16:56 hrs from RAF Linton on Ouse for Ops over Dusseldorf and was lost without trace. All the crew are commemorated at the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede.
 
Sgt Hodge's links with Cowes are not known, as his parents were from Bexleyheath, Kent.
 
Information and photograph from John Bloodworth