Born at Bridport, Dorset. (The parish records for Bridport show him as being baptised there on the 23rd of September 1835, the son of John Hodder, a shoemaker, and his wife, Sarah.)
Enlisted at Bridport on the 24th of February 1854.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Labourer.
At Scutari from the 26th of July and sent to England on the 14th of August 1855.
Transferred to the 39th Foot on the 1st of October 1857. "To serve with elder brother." Regtl, No. 30. (A 2752 Private Charles Hodder was serving in the regiment at this time.)
To the Depot at Templemore, Ireland, when the regiment went to the West Indies, on the 1st of July 1858, and was "In Hospital" during the remainder of the month and during August.
Transferred to the Royal Canadian Rifles at Manchester on the 30th of June 1866.
Joined them in Montreal on the 24th of August 1866.
Discharged, "on the termination of his engagement," from Montreal on the 31st of December 1866.
Served 12 years 333 days.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Lummis and Wynn state, "Name not to be found on the medal roll", but he is shown on the Sebastopol clasp list.