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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 481

Four: Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 A. Hodge, 1/7th Battalion, Scottish Rifles (Cameronians), who saw action in Gallipoli and Egypt

1914-15 Star (154 C.Q.M. Sjt. A. Hodge, Sco. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (154 A.W.O. Cl. 2 A. Hodge, Sco. Rif.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (154 Sjt. A. Hodge, 7/Sco. Rif.), the second with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine or better (4)

Alexander Hodge was born in Dunfermline, Fife in 1879 and originally served as a Private in the Volunteer Force (1900-08). Transferring to the 7th Battalion, Scottish Rifles (Territorial Force) in April of the latter year, he was advanced to Sergeant in August 1914 and to Acting C.Q.M.S in January 1915. Embarked for Egypt in May of the same year, he landed at Cape Helles, Gallipoli in mid-June, where the Battalion quickly suffered its first casualties.

He subsequently remained on active duty with the Battalion in Egypt until April 1916, when he returned home to take his discharge.


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