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Auction: 13003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 53

Six: Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant G. Wozencroft, Hampshire Regiment, Late Grenadier Guards
Queen's Sudan 1896-98 (4969 Pte. G. Wozencroft Gren: Gds:); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (4969 Corpl: G. Wozencroft. Grenadier Guards); British War Medal (487 W.O. Cl.2. G. Wozencroft. Hamps. R.); Territorial Force War Medal (487 W.O. Cl.2. G. Wozencroft. Hamps. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (240029 R.Q.M. Sjt. G. Wozencroft. 4/Hamps. R.); Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908, one clasp, Khartoum (Pte. G. Wozencroft. Gren. Gds.), contact marks to first, lacquered, generally very fine, mounted together with an unofficially named up Victory Medal to which the recipient is not entitled (7)

240029 Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant George Wozencroft, born Gorton, Lancashire, 1876; enlisted in the Grenadier Guards, September 1894; served with the Regiment in Egypt and the Sudan, July to October 1898, and in South Africa, April to July 1902; discharged, 31.8.1906, after 12 years with the Colours; subsequently served during the Great War at home with the Hampshire Regiment (Territorial Army).

R.Q.M.S. Wozencroft's medal entitlement for the Great War was the British War Medal and Territorial Force War Medal. He did not qualify for nor receive the Victory Medal (letter from the Ministry of Defence, dated 2.1.1986 refers).

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