The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel C. C. F. Hosken, 10th Middlesex Regiment, a confirmed ‘Jameson Raider’ as a Sergeant in ‘B’ Troop, Mashonaland Mounted Police

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, 1 clasp, Mashonaland 1897 (Sgt. C. C. F. Hosken. M.R.F.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col. C. C. Hosken.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 Capt. C. C. F. Hosken. Midd’x R.; Coronation 1911; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919, complete with brooch bar converted with slide fitting, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine or better (5) £800-£1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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Charles Cuthbert Fayrer Hosken was born on 23 March 1875. He served as a Sergeant in ‘B’ Troop, Mashonaland Mounted Police, and took part in the Jameson raid in 1895. Sergeant with the Matabeleland Relief Force in Rhodesia in 1896 [F. Hoskeyns on roll] and a Lieutenant in the British South Africa Police in Mashonaland in 1897 (Medal with Clasp). Appointed Second Lieutenant, 2nd (South) Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps, 4 September 1905; Lieutenant, 10th Middlesex Regiment, 8 January 1907; Captain, 1 January 1912; Major, 8 October 1914; Lieutenant-Colonel, 27 October 1921; retired 5 April 1930. It is believed that Hosken served with 1/10th Middlesex Regiment in India throughout the Great War although his medal index card shows Egypt from 10 November 1914. His Territorial Decoration was gazetted on 4 November 1919.