H.D. Hodkinson DSC
R.N.V.R.
H.M.S. ""Osprey"
28th June 1944 age 27
Here he lies
where he longed to be.
Home is the sailor
Home from the sea.
H.M.S. Osprey was a R.N.A.S. helicopter and aircraft base at Portland.
The quotation is from R.L. Stevenson's Poem "Under the wide and starry sky".
He is remembered in Wylam on W73.02 and W73.06 and on our List of Ships’ crews
