Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Driver S. P. Hodgson, Royal Army Service Corps and St. John Ambulance Brigade

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Service Medal of the Order of St John, silvered base metal (33793. Pte. S. P. Hodgson. Bedford. S.J.A.B. 1946/) mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £80-£120

Sydney Palmer Hodgson was born in Sedgefield, co. Durham, on 22 September 1914, and attested for the Suffolk Regiment (Territorial Army) on 27 February 1941. Transferring to the Royal Army Service Corps on 5 June 1941, he served during the Second World War as a Driver predominately with 5, later 236, Brigade Company in the Middle East, Africa, and Italy, and was released Class ‘Z’ on 4 September 1946. He died in Bedford on 29 May 1964.

Sold with cloth formation signs for the 21st Army Group, the Second Army, and the 7th Armoured Division, and a Fitter’s Trade cloth patch; and copied service papers and other research.