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Anthony Claude Hermon-Hodge was born at Plymouth on 1 August 1920, the only son of Rear Admiral the Hon. Claude Preston Hermon-Hodge DSC RN and Gwendoline (née Davis). He was educated at Radley College from 1934 to 1939, where he was a Junior Scholar, a Heathcote Scholar and a member of the Natural History Society, as well as a member of the fencing team.
Anthony Hermon-Hodge entered Worcester College on 13 October 1939 and achieved 2nd class honours in classical moderations [first-year exams] in 1940. He was unable to return for his second year having been conscripted into the Royal Navy. Sub Lieutenant Anthony Hermon-Hodge was killed on 12 June 1942, when his ship HMS Grove was sunk off the coast of Egypt by two torpedoes fired by the U-Boat U-77. He was 21 years old.
Anthony Hermon-Hodge is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial Panel and on the war memorials of Radley College and Worcester College, Oxford.