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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 446

Four: 2nd Lieutenant C. C. Badgley, 1/11th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles), late 1st Royal Dragoons

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4470 Pte. C. C. Badgeley, 1st Rl. Dragoons), note spelling of surname; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut. C. C. Badgley, 11/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. C. C. Badgley), generally good very fine (4)

Clement Christian Badgley, the son of Colonel W. F. Badgley of Devizes, Wiltshire, was born in India and enlisted in the 1st Royal Dragoons in Exeter in August 1899, aged 18 years. Embarked for South Africa in December 1900, he witnessed active service in Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal (Queen's Medal & 3 clasps) and was discharged in July 1903; two dated clasps were sent to his father in January 1907.

In September 1915, Badgley was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the London Regiment, direct from the Inns of Court O.T.C. Drafted to the 1/11th (City of London) Battalion - the Finsbury Rifles - he was embarked for Egypt at the year's end and may have seen action in Gallipoli.

He subsequently saw action in Palestine, most notably at the Second Battle of Gaza in April 1917, when his Battalion suffered losses of 107 killed and 265 wounded, and in the Third Battle in December, when the Finsbury Rifles were hotly engaged at Gun Hill. Not having been advanced in rank - and on account of his entitlement to the Silver War Badge - it is worth speculating whether he was a casualty; at the time of applying for his campaign medals, his forwarding address was in Winnipeg, Manitoba.


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