Auction Catalogue

23 September 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 192

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23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£470

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Mohmand 1933 (4855225 Pte. C. W. Hodgkinson, Leic. R.) edge bruise, otherwise extremely fine and most unusual to the regiment £180-220

Sold with a letter from the Royal Tigers’ Association which confirms that Hodgkinson was serving in the 1st Battalion in India in 1933, and that he was advanced to Lance-Corporal in January of the same year.