Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private John F. Hodder, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, afterwards a Special Constable with Winchester Police who died of injuries received in an air raid on 9 February 1943

1914-15 Star (1804 Pte. J. F. Hodder. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (1804 J. F. Hodder. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue, 1 clasp, Long Service 1940 (John F. Hodder) together with companion set of mounted miniature medals, and silver cigarette case, the lid engraved with L.I. bugle and ‘F.J.H. 10th May 1917’, very fine (6) £100-£140

John Francis Hodder served with the 1/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in France from 29 March 1915. He became a Constable with the Winchester Special Police in 1921 and was injured during an air raid on a southern town on the night of 9 February 1943. He died of his injuries at the Canadian Neurological Hospital, Winslade, Hampshire, on 12 February 1943. Sold with three O.B.L.I. badges and some copied research.