Hoggan, CAR
(1898 - 1918)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
4th January 1898
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1911 - 1915
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
Normanhurst, Stanstead Road, Upper Caterham
REGIMENT
46th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
FINAL RANK:
Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
30th May 1918
AGE AT DEATH:
20
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
near Bethune
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Fouquieres Churchyard Extension. III C 9
Lieutenant Claude Ashley Rieu Hoggan
Born on January 4th 1898, Claude was the fourth child, but eldest son, of Scottish-born bank secretary William Hoggan and his wife, Lucy. He joined Dulwich at the start of 1911 and would go on to be at the College for just over four years, leaving in the spring of 1915. In his final year, during which he was in the Modern 6th, he was also a member of the 1st XV.
When Claude left Dulwich in April 1915 the war was already underway, and despite being underage he enlisted as a member of the Public Schools Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Later that year he was sent to the front, where he was to remain for much of the rest of the war, seeing service at Loos and Bethune, amongst others. In August 1916, still aged only 18, he was granted a commission in the Machine Gun Corps, later being promoted to Lieutenant in early 1918. On May 30th that year he was killed in action, and later buried in the churchyard at Fouquieres-les-Bethune.
