Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (64 Pte. G. Hodges. 2nd. Bn. Som. L.I.) contact marks, nearly very fine £160-£200

Thomas George Hodges, a labourer from Weston, Somerset, was born on 23 February 1862. He attested into the Somerset Light Infantry, from the Militia, at Taunton, on 17 November 1881 and served in India with the 2nd Battalion. Sentenced to six months imprisonment for theft in 19 April 1886, he returned home in April 1889 before his discharge on 15 November 1893. He attested into the Reserve on 19 March 1900, but was discharged due to epilepsy after nine months’ service. He died, aged 54, in Weston on 13 December 1916.

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