Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance-Corporal C. Hobday, Middlesex Regiment, dangerously wounded during the Battle of the Somme, 24 August 1916

1914-15 Star (G-2143. L-Cpl. C. Hobday. Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (G-2143 Pte. C. Hobday. Midd’x R.) good very fine (3) £50-70

Charles Henry Hobday was born in New Cross, London, on 5 December 1890, and attested for the Middlesex Regiment at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, on 27 August 1914, having previously served for six years in the Territorial Army. Appointed Lance-Corporal in the 14th (Home Service) Battalion in November 1914, he was posted to the 12th Battalion in August 1915 and proceeded to France to join his new Battalion, arriving on the Western Front on 25 August 1915. He was dangerously wounded in the back from gun shot during the Somme Campaign on 24 August 1916, and was repatriated home. He was discharged as no longer physically fit for War service on 26 November 1917, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. He died at Southend-on-Sea in March 1973.

Sold together with the recipient’s Certificate of Discharge and Particulars of Service; Ministry of Labour Certificate for efficiency in the Boot and Shoe industry; Silver War Badge receipt; and two photographs.