Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Gunner and Shoeing-Smith W. E. Hodgkins, Royal Field Artillery

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (16553. Gun’r, W. E. Hodgkin [sic]. R.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (20569 S:Sth: W. E. Hodgkins, 37th. Batt. R.F.A.) rank officially corrected; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (20569 Shg:- Sth: W. E. Hodgkins. R.F.A.); 1914 Star, with clasp (20569 S.Sth. W. E. Hodgkins. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (20569 Gnr. W. E. Hodgkins. R.A.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (20569. Gr. W. E. Hodgkins. 37th. Fd. Bty. R.A.) contemporarily engraved naming, mounted court-style, lacquered, very fine (7) £500-£700

William Edwin Hodgkins attested for the Royal Artillery on 15 June 1897 and served with the 37th Field Battery in the Sudan and in South Africa during the Boer War, and with the 30th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 August 1914. He was discharged due to sickness on 17 August 1918, and was awarded a Silver War Badge No. 435,730.

Sold with copied medal index card and medal roll extracts.