Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

Four: Captain G. P. Dodsworth, 19th Hussars, formerly war correspondent for the Morning Post in the Sudan

Coronation 1902, silver; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (Lieut., 19th Hussars) contemporary re-engraved naming; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Aro 1901-1902 (Lieut., 19th Hussars) contemporary re-engraved naming; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Hafir, unnamed as issued, original mounting as worn, together with original copy Death Certificate and related covering letter, nearly extremely fine (4)
£300-350

George Dodsworth was born on 11 April 1871. He represented the Morning Post newspaper as a correspondent in the Dongola Expedition of 1896. He served during the Boer War with the South African Light Horse and was present at the relief of Ladysmith, including operations of 17-24 January 1900, and action at Spion Kop; operations of 5-7 February, and action at Vall Kranz; operations on Tugela Heights, and action at Pieters Hill; operations in Natal, March to June 1900, including action at Laing’s Nek; operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, including actions at Belfast and Lydenburg. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant into the 19th Hussars on 19 May 1900, becoming Lieutenant on 17 July 1901. Employed with the waff from 30 May 1901 to 26 April 1902, Dodsworth took part in the operations of the Aro Expeditionary Force under Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. Montanaro, R.A. He appears to have remained in West Africa and died as a Captain at Ibi, Northern Nigeria, on 3 August 1912.