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№ 397

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19 May 2021

Hammer Price:
£260

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (14156 Cpl. E. J. Hodgson, 47th Coy 13th Imp Yeo:) polished, otherwise nearly very fine £140-£180

Ernest John Hodgson served with the 47th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Company, 13th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, as a Corporal and was taken prisoner to Lindley on 31 May 1900, and was released at Barberton on 13 September 1900. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the 18th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry but relinquished his commission on 1 December 1901, having been invalided to England.