Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 March 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1251

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26 March 2014

Hammer Price:
£240

Pair: Sergeant E. Fudge, Royal Marine Light Infantry, and afterwards an instructor to the Royal Naval Division at Crystal Palace in the Great War

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (E. Fudge, Sgt., R.M.L.I., H.M.S. Niobe); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (Edward Fudge, Sergt., No. 3763 Plymo., R.M.L.I.), occasional edge bruising and minor contact marks, better than very fine (2) £250-300

Edward Fudge was born at Stapleton, near Taunton, in March 1868 and enlisted in the Royal Marine Light Infantry in March 1886. Posted to the Plymouth Division as a Private, he gained advancement to Corporal in June 1893 and to Sergeant in April 1898, in which latter rank he served in H.M.S. Niobe during the Boer War, gaining entitlement to the Queen’s South Africa Medal and clasp ‘Cape Colony’ after been landed in with 64 other Marines for the defence of Walfisch Bay in February 1900 - one of 129 Medals & single clasp awarded to his ship’s company.

Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in February 1904, Fudge was discharged on account of his length of service in April 1907, when he was enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve. And it was in the latter capacity that he was recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, serving as an instructor to the Royal Naval Division at Crystal Palace and gaining entitlement to the British War Medal 1914-20 - the whereabouts of which remains unknown. He died in March 1963; sold with copied medal roll verification and service record.