Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Cooper R. R. Hogg, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (R. R. Hogg, Car: Cr: H.M.S. Powerful) impressed naming; British War and Victory Medals (340625 R. R. Hogg. Cpr. 1. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (340625 R. R. Hogg, Cooper, H.M.S. Latona.) contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £300-£400

Robert Rutherford Hogg was born at Melrose, Scotland, on 20 February 1876; a carpenter by trade prior to joining the Royal Navy, he naturally enlisted as Carpenter’s Crew on 23 April 1895, and served in H.M.S. Powerful from 8 June 1897 to 8 June 1900 (published transcription of medal roll gives entitlement to a no clasp Queen’s South Africa Medal; however, a contemporary newspaper account written by the recipient, dated 20 December 1899, states that he had been up at Ladysmith before he was sent back, and so perhaps he felt that he deserved the Defence of Ladysmith clasp as a result!).

Promoted Cooper on 16 February 1905, Hogg served in H.M.S. Latona from 16 September 1909 to 8 April 1911, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 10 December 1910. He saw further service during the Great War in the battleship H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth from 8 March 1916 to 15 April 1919, and was shore demobilised on 16 December 1919.

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