Lot Archive

Lot

№ 93

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2 April 2003

Hammer Price:
£620

Three: Sergeant A. Hogg, The Gordon Highlanders

1914-15 Star (10997 Pte., Gord. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (10997 Sjt., Gordons), together with related Memorial Scroll and Plaque (Andrew Hogg) and wartime portrait photograph, good very fine or better (4) £80-100

Andrew Hogg, who enlisted in the 6th Gordons at Huntly, died of wounds received at Iringa in German East Africa on 7 November 1917, while attached to the King’s African Rifles. One of just eight Gordons to die in this theatre of war, he was buried in Iringa Cemetery, Tanzania.