SOE Hodgart, Matthew John Caldwell

First Into Action
By Duncan Falconer
The Greatest Raid of All
By C E Lucas Phillips

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Hodgart
  • FORENAME
Matthew John Caldwell
  • UNIT
SOE
  • RANK
Captain
  • NUMBER
  • AWARD
Mention in Despatches,Legion dHonneur (Fr),Croix de Guerre (Fr)
  • PLACE
French North Africa and Corsica
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
born 1.9.1916 Paisley,Renfrewshire
son of Matthew and Katherine Barbour Caldwell Hodgart
educated Rugby School
educated Pembroke College,Cambridge 1935-38 (B.A.)
Jebb Studentship for postgraduate studies 1939
joined Army 1939
Professor of English postwar
married Betty Joyce Henstridge 1940 (died 1948)
married Margaret Patricia Elliott 1949
died 3.4.1996
 
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