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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 9

The Second War O.B.E. Group of Six to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir K.W. Hogg, Bt., Irish Guards
a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Officer's (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt
b) 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. K.W. Hogg. I.Gds.)
c) British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. K.W. Hogg)
d) Defence and War Medals, generally very fine, mounted as worn, together with the recipient's related miniature awards, the 1914-15 Star replaced with a 1914 Star, these mounted court-style as worn (6)

O.B.E. London Gazette Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Kenneth Weir Hogg (9625), Irish Guards.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Kenneth Weir Hogg, Bt. (1894-1985), educated at Haileybury College and Christ Church, Oxford; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 5.10.1914; posted from the Special Reserve to the Irish Guards, 4.10.1915, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 26.5.1915 (wounded); promoted Lieutenant, 17.2.1916; Captain, 2.12.1918; served during the Second World War as Assistant Adjutant-General, Directorate of Recruiting and Demobilisation, War Office; retired, 18.10.1945, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

Upon the death of his cousin, Ronald McGarel-Hogg, 4th Baron Magheramorne and 5th Baronet, in April 1957, Hogg succeeded to the Baronetcy as 6th Baronet (the peerage having becoming extinct). The baronetcy had originally been created for his great grandfather, James Weir Hogg, M.P., Chairman of the Honourable East India Company. Another cousin, Lord Hailsham, served as Lord Chancellor.

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