Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lance-Corporal G. T. Hogg, 29th Canadian Infantry, who was killled in action on the Somme on 26 September 1916

British War and Victory Medals (464594 Cpl., 29-Can. Inf.), with related Memorial Plaque (George Tulley Hogg) and Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., officially inscribed, ‘464594 Cpl. G. T. Hogg’, with lid of card box of issue for the medals and what would appear to be the original I.D. disc removed from his remains in the field, extremely fine (5) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties formed by Tim Parsons.

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George Tulley Hogg was born at Hutton Mills, Berwickshire in February 1883 and served in the 7th (Volunteer) Battalion, Royal Scots before seeking a new life in Canada.

Enlisting in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Vancouver in December 1915, he arrived in France in May 1916 and was posted to the 29th Battalion, Canadian Infantry. Advanced to Corporal in September of the latter year, he was killed in action in an attack near Courcelette on the Somme on 26th of the same month. As it happened, his Battalion captured the objective just ten minutes after going “over the top” at zero hour - ‘Most of the defenders fled and one machine-gun was captured.’

Hogg was interred in the Aldanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont and Pys; photographs of his headstone are included.