United Services College, Westward Ho!, prize medal, large five-pointed bronze star, 65mm, the silver central roundel depicting the College arms with name around, fitted with ring suspension and bronze ribbon brooch, in its Squire & Son, Bideford presentation case, extremely fine
£50-100

Believed to relate to George Cecil Hodgson, son of Lieutenant-Colonel George Robert Hodgson, Bombay Staff Corps, who was born in 1876 and educated as the United Services College, Westward Ho! He entered the ndian Army and served with the 32nd Sikh Pioneers in Waziristan 1901-02, Tibet 1903-04 (awarded D.S.O.), Abor 1911-12, and in the Great War. His medals were sold in our sale of 19 April 1995 (£5200). Sold with hand written copy of a Regimental Order on 32 Sikh Pioneer note paper concerning the action of the Zara Defile in which Captain Hector Bethune was killed and Hodgson mentioned, and Route Report - Gyantse to Lhasa (compiled from Native reports). Also with Royal Life Saving Society bronze proficiency medal ‘awarded to R. E. Hodgson July 1941’; a clasp for ‘Cyprus’ in card box of issue named to Capt. R. E. Hodgson, R.E.; and a related General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (2173616 Cpl. I. D. Pull, W.R.A.F.) believed to be the future wife of Captain Hodgson.