Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private C. Lodge, Wiltshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 20 September 1917
British War and Victory Medals (27089 Pte. C. Lodge. Wilts. R.) nearly very fine

Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (73418 Pte. W. H. Hudson. L’pool R.; 41041 Pte. A. R. Riley. Lan. Fus.; M-338792 Pte. W. Lord. A.S.C.) last partially corrected; Memorial Plaque (Robert Skinner) nearly very fine

Imperial Service Medal (2), G.VI.R., 1st issue (Frank Hugh Haynes) in Royal Mint case of issue; E.II.R., 1st issue, naming erased; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (John H Duxbury) officially renamed; together with a Royal Life Saving Society Proficiency Medal, bronze (J. H. Egan July 1909) in fitted case of issue; a silver and enamel Masonic Jewel named to ‘Bro. William J. Chapman, Arden Lodge, No. 6230, Nov. 29 1928’; and five miscellaneous tokens, nearly very fine and better (lot) £80-£100

Charles Lodge was born in Corsham, Wiltshire, in 1898 and attested for the Wiltshire Regiment at Chippenham, Wiltshire. He served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action at Passchendaele on 20 September 1917, on which date the Battalion captured and held a position in front of Hollebeke Chateau, during which they suffered over 200 casualties. Lodge has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.