Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private C. L. Moger, West Yorkshire Regiment, later Labour Corps, wounded in both the Second Boer War and the Great War

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, South Africa 1901 (5378 Pte. C. L. Moger. W. York: Regt) unofficial rivets between 5th and 6th clasps; British War and Victory Medals (10346 Pte. C. L. Moger. W. York. R.) minor edge nicks, therefore generally very fine (3) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the West Yorkshire (14th Foot) and Yorkshire (19th Foot) Regiments.

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Charles Lionel Moger was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, and attested for the West Yorkshire Regiment at Sheffield, in December 1898. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Second Boer War, 20 October 1899 - 13 November 1901 and 22 July 1902 - 21 October 1902. Moger was wounded in Natal in February 1900 (service papers give the 27th and published transcription of casualty roll gives the 24th of the month, the latter erroneously gives his initial as ‘G’). He was discharged as ‘Medically Unfit’ 28 April 1903, having served 4 years and 135 days with the Colours.

Moger re-engaged for service during the Great War with the 3rd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, in November 1914. He served with the Regiment in the French theatre of war, from 21 January 1916. He received a gunshot wound to the ‘face & R. arm, R. Chest’ in 1917, and suffered from ‘Gas Shell Pois. W.’ later the same year (service papers refer). He was discharged from the Labour Corps, in January 1919.