Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (26628 Tpr: E. Hodsdon. 56th Coy Imp: Yeo:) last two clasps loose on riband, good very fine; with King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (26628 Tpr. E. Hodsdon, 56th Coy. Imp: Yeo:) renamed, good very fine (2) £100-140

Edwin Hodsdon was born in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. He attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Buckingham, in February 1901. He served with the 56th (Buckinghamshire) Company 15th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, March 1901 - July 1902, and was discharged to join the British South Africa Police at Elandsfontein in July 1902.