Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Mafeking (181 Tpr: A. H. Hodgkinson. Protect: Regt. F.F.) suspension re-constituted, cleaned, nearly very fine £1,400-£1,800

Albert Harry Hodgkinson served with ‘D’ Squadron, Protectorate Regiment during the Defence of Mafeking and was wounded in the FitzClarence Bayonet attack on 27 October 1899. Hosking’s Diary says he was wounded after the Red Cross flag had been flown by a splinter from a shell right through his thigh. He was also wounded in the surprise attack in Western Laager (Mafeking Siege Register, by Colin Walker refers).