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8 December 2016

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№ 76

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8 December 2016

Hammer Price:
£1,700

A Great War ‘Hawke Battalion’ M.M. group of three awarded to Able Seaman O. F. Hogg, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who died of wounds received at Cambrai, October 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (R-1549 A.B. O. F. Hogg. Hawke Bn: R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (R.1549 O. F. Hogg. Ord. R.N.V.R.); Memorial Plaque (Owen Frederick Hogg), about extremely fine (4) £600-800

M.M. London Gazette 20 August 1919.

Owen Frederick Hogg was born in Birmingham on 10 December 1887, and joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 10 December 1915. He entered active service on 6 June 1917 and was promoted Able Seaman on 14 September 1917. Drafted to the Nelson Battalion as part of the British Expeditionary Force, he embarked at Folkestone on 14 March 1918. Detailed to the Hawke Battalion, he was severely wounded at Cambrai from gunshot wounds to the left thigh and left knee on 8 October 1918, and died of his wounds on 20 October 1918. He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.