Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private T. Redding, Hampshire Regiment, who died in Gallipoli on 6 August 1915

Africa General Service 1902-56, 2 clasps, Somaliland 1902-04, Jidballi (3986 Pte. T. Redding. 1st. Hamp: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (3-5298 Pte. T. Redding. Hamps: R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-5298 Pte. T. Redding. Hamps. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3986 L.Cpl. T. Redding. Hants. Regt.) mounted court-style, light contact marks, very fine and better (5) £300-£400

Thomas Redding was born in Odiham, Hampshire, in 1874 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment at Winchester on 30 November 1892, having previously served in the Regiment’s 3rd (Militia) Battalion. He served with the 1st Battalion in India from 10 December 1894 to 2 February 1903, in Aden from 3 February to 20 June 1903, and in Somaliland from 21 June 1903 to 22 June 1904. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 92 of 1911, and was discharged at his own request on 2 May 1911, after 18 years and 154 days’ service. Re-joining following the outbreak of the Great War, he served with the 2nd Battalion in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 15 June 1915, and died on 6 August 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

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