Major Christopher Waterhouse Hodgson (1899-1906)

He was born in Coston on 30th October 1888 in Norfolk England. After attending the College he went onto a military college, where he achieved the rank of lieutenant.  He immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1912 where he worked for a bank. He was awarded a bronze medal by the Royal Humane Society, for saving a life in Clinton, Ontario, Canada.  The citation reads “On 5 July 1912 a man while bathing in the river at Clinton, Ontario, sank in 9 feet of water 15 yards out from the bank. Hodgson plunged in and succeeded in saving him.”