Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Major H. M. Hodgart, Royal Engineers

British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major H. M. Hodgart.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt. H. M. Hodgart. R.E.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Hugh M. Hodgart) good very fine (4) £300-£400

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Santis.

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Hugh Maclure Hodgart was born in Paisley, Scotland on 3 June 1890 and was educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh. By profession an engine maker, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Renfrewshire (Fortress) Works Company, R.E. (Territorial Force) in February 1911 and was promoted to Captain shortly before the outbreak of war. By that time, he had assumed command of No. 1 (Works) Company of the Renfrewshire Fortress Engineers, which unit he took to Egypt in January 1916, where it was attached to 10th Indian Division.

Later still, the company was embarked for France, where he commanded it as a Temporary Major on the Somme, not least in the heavy fighting at Transloy in October 1916. Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 18 May 1917), he returned to the U.K. in March 1917 and saw no further action. ‘Fond of mountaineering and an avid golfer’, who onetime captained the Ranfurly Golf Club, Hodgart died in January 1937.

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