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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 389

(x) The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals worn by Brigadier O. F. G. Hogg, C.B.E., Royal Artillery

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, (C.B.E.), Military Division, Commander's badge, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937; Poland, Republic, Order of Poland Restored, badge, dated '1918', silver-gilt and enamel, mounted as worn, good very fine (8)


Oliver Frederick Gillian Hogg was born in December 1887, son of Colonel A. M. Hogg, 6th Bombay Lancers. Educated at Bedford and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1907. Advanced to Captain by 1914, he served on the Western Front from 26 August 1914 in the Royal Garrison Artillery's No. 2 Anti-Aircraft Section (his MIC refers). Returning home, his subsequent career was focussed on researching the use of artillery in war. He remained engrossed in his work at Woolwich, taking a number of senior technical postings throughout the inter-war years. During the Second World War Hogg held positions as Assistant Master-General of Ordnances (1939) and Director of Military Administration (1939-46). He was awarded the C.B.E. (London Gazette 2 June 1943, refers) and the Order of Poland Restored (London Gazette 7 December 1944, refers). Widely published throughout his career, his greatest work is considered to be his monumental The Royal Arsenal, published in 1963. Hogg died on 19 February 1979; sold with copied research.

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