Bodin, Hugh Z/7910 (1897 - 1917)

Signaller, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Buried at Portsmouth Naval Memorial

Commemorated at Bellahouston Academy Roll of Honour

In March 1916 Hugh joined the Clyde Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and received his training at Crystal Palace and Chatham, United Kingdom. His ship, HMS Cheerful, a destroyer, was on patrol in the Forth and afterwards at Lerwick, Shetland Isles.
Returning from the patrol on 30 June 1917 and in sight of Lerwick harbour, she was struck by a mine or torpedo and sank. Bodin was 20 years of age.

Hugh was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Bodin, 5 Osborne Place, Govan, Glasgow. He intended to become a doctor but left school in June 1915 to work in Harland & Wolff's, shipping company.