Biography:
George Guy Hermon-Hodge was born 22 August 1883, the third son of Colonel Sir Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, Bart., J.P., D.L. 1st Baron Wyfold, and Fanny, Baroness Wyfold (nee Hermon) of Wyfold Court, Reading. He was one of seven brothers, four of whom came to Winchester. The other three Wykehamists (who also served in the war) were Lieutenant the Hon. H.B. Hermon-Hodge (College 1899-1903), Major the Hon. Robert Edward Udney Hermon-Hodge DSO (H 1896-1900) and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Roland Herman Hermon-Hodge MVO, DSO (H 1893-1896). Another brother, Second Lieutenant John Perceval Hermon-Hodge, was killed in June 1915 and is buried in the Rifle House Cemetery, Ypres. His maternal grandfather, Edward Hermon, had amassed a huge sum from the Lancashire cotton mills and built Wyfold Court.
George came to Winchester College from Summerfields, Oxford, in September 1897 and was in H House, Bramston's. We know little about his time at Winchester other than that he was On Dress for Commoner XV in 1900.
He left Winchester in December 1900 and went on to RMA Woolwich in 1901. He then obtained a commission in the RFA in 1903. George made a great reputation wherever he was stationed as a sportsman and cross-country rider.
Early in the war he was placed in charge of a field battery of the New Army, which he trained and took to France as part of 165 Brigade RFA. He died at Doullens on 7 July 1916, of shrapnel wounds received on 28 June while commanding his battery during the bombardment that preceded the Battle of the Somme.
He is buried in Grave I.B.12 of the Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension.