Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Battery Quartermaster Sergeant F. J. Hodgkins, Royal Artillery, who was killed in action in Mesopotamia on 5 November 1917

British War and Victory Medals (34516 B.Q.M. Sjt. F. J. Hodgkins. R.A.); Memorial Plaque (Frederick Jesse Hodgkins) naming lightly struck on VM, very fine (3) £80-£100

Frederick Jesse Hodgkins was born in Havant, Hampshire. A musician with the Duke of York’s Royal Military School, Chelsea, London, he attested for the Royal Artillery, aged 14, on 23 April 1904, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 October 1914. Appointed Battery Quartermaster Sergeant on 26 June 1916, he was killed in action in Mesopotamia on 5 November 1917; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.