Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant J. Hogg, Royal Engineers, late Royal Scots

1914-15 Star (13457 L. Cpl. J. Hogg. R. Scots.); British War and Victory Medals (13457 Sjt. J. Hogg. R. Scots.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (WR-254596 Sjt: J. Hogg. R.E.) good very fine (4) £120-£160

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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M.S.M. London Gazette 18 January 1919.
John Hogg was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 10 March 1887 and was employed as a platelayer for the Great Northern Railway on enlisting in the Royal Scots in September 1914. Drafted to the 12th (Service) Battalion, he was embarked for France as a Lance-Corporal in May 1915, where he was wounded in the Loos offensive that September. Invalided home via hospital in St. Omer, he rejoined his battalion in February 1916. But on account of a hernia he was transferred to the Royal Engineers, complete with a government issue truss. Remarkably, in the circumstances, he served in 279 Railway Operating Company, R.E., and was advanced to Corporal in July 1916 and to Sergeant in March 1917. Moreover, his ‘valuable services’ were recognised by the award of the Meritorious Service Medal.