{{Short description|British Indian Army officer killed during the First World War's Gallipoli campaign}} thumb Brigadier General '''George Benjamin Hodson''', CB, DSO (October 1863 – 25 January 1916) was a British Indian Army officer. He died of wounds sustained at Suvla during the Gallipoli campaign, while in command of the 33rd Indian Brigade.
He was commissioned as a subaltern, with the rank of lieutenant, into the South Staffordshire Regiment of the British Army in May 1882, after graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25105|page=2157|date=9 May 1882}}</ref>
He was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general in October 1915.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29352|page=10898|date=2 November 1915|supp=y}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
* Davis, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (1995). Bloody Red Tabs - General Officer Casualties of the Great War, 1914–1918. London: Leo Cooper, p. 73.
==External links== *{{CWGC|id=115360}}
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