Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (76 Tpr: F. Hodgson. Bethune’s M.I.) good very fine £100-140

Frederick Hodgson served with the Standerton Mounted Police and as No. 76 in D Squadron Bethune’s Mounted Infantry from 19 October 1899 to 19 November 1900. He enlisted in the Bushveldt Carbineers at Durban on 8 March 1901, and was discharged as Armourer Sergeant on 11 September 1901. He subsequently served as a Trooper in Steinaecker’s Horse.