Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Three: Sergeant M. F. Hogan, Irish Guards

1914-15 Star (7634 L. Cpl., I. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (7634 Sjt., Ir. Gds.) contact marks, edge bruising and polished, generally about very fine (3) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to the Irish Guards.

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Michael Francis Hogan enlisted in the Irish Guards at Fethand, Tipperary in April 1915, aged 22 years. Arriving in France in mid-October of the same year, he suffered a shell wound to his face at St. Omer on 1 December and was evacuated home two weeks later. He returned to the Front in April 1917, remaining there until October 1918, when he was discharged from the Irish Guards to attend an O.T.U. for a commission in the Guards Machine Gun Regiment. On being discharged from the Army, Hogan re-enlisted as a Private in the Essex Regiment and, later it would seem, in the Royal Air Force - sold with an original R.A.O.B. Grand Lodge of England (R.A.F. Lodge) certificate of membership in the name of ‘Michael F. Hogan’ and dated 24 January 1927.