Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 27 Nov 2024

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A South Africa Pair to Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Hodgson, King's Royal Rifle Corps: Queen's South

£150 - £200 £315

A South Africa Pair to Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Hodgson, King's Royal Rifle Corps: Queen's South Africa Medal, 2nd type, 5 clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing's Nek, Belfast (Lt A. T. HODGSON. K.R.R.C.), engraved in serif capitals, good very fine and toned; King's South Africa Medal, 2 clasps: South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. A. T. HODGSON. K.R.R.C.), engraved in serif letters, good very fine and toned, [2]; together with two sets of corresponding dress miniature medals, a South Africa 1900 gift tin, a souvenir medal for the 1911 coronation, and a small number of later medal ribbons.



(36mm diamter each)

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 25/10/1899 and Lieutenant 14/11/1900. Commenced war service in South Africa on duty at the Base Depot at Maritzburg. Advanced with the 1st Battalion K.R.R.C. in the force under Sir Redvers Buller into the Transvaal. Present at the engagements at Amersfoort, Geluk Farm, Badfontein, Lyndenburg and the Mauchberg. Served in the operations under Lieutenant Generals Hildyard and Lyttelton.

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