Six: Corporal W. A. Bodger, 1st Essex Artillery Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Warrant Officer Class II, Royal Field Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (916 Cpl. W. A. Bodger, C.I.V.) minor official correction to surname; 1914-15 Star (3. Whlr. Q.M. Sjt. W. A. Bodger. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (3 W.O. Cl. 2 W. A. Bodger. R.A.); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (4415 Sjt: W. A. Bodger. 1/Essex R.G.A.V.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (880001 W.O. Cl. II W. A. Bodger. R.F.A.) mounted as worn, very fine or better (6) £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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William Ainsworth Bodger was born in Hackney, London in 1872. A wheeler by occupation, he joined the 1st Essex Artillery Volunteers in 1890 and serving as a Corporal, was one of 12 men from that unit to serve with the City Imperial Volunteers in South Africa during the Boer War. Afterwards returning to the 1st Essex Royal Garrison Artillery Volunteers, he was promoted Sergeant and proceeded to serve during the Great War on the Western Front with the Royal Field Artillery as a Wheeler Quartermaster Sergeant from 17 November 1915, reaching the rank of Warrant Officer Class II. He was discharged from the Royal Field Artillery Territorial Force on 22 March 1920.

Sold together with the recipient’s Freedom of the City of London parchment certificate, this mounted.