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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 304

A Second World War campaign pair awarded to Fusilier J. R. Hogarth, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, who was killed in action - or died of wounds - in France on 6 June 1940

1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, in original O.H.M.S. card forwarding box, addressed to the recipient's mother, with Army Council condolence slip in the name of '4274966 Fus. J. R. Hogarth', extremely fine (2)

John Roland Hogarth was born at Tynemouth, Northumberland on 25 April 1919 and was working as a commercial lithographic artist on the eve of the outbreak of hostilities.

A soldier of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Territorials), he served in the 7th Battalion with the B.E.F. in France from October 1939, when his unit was assigned to the 51st (Highland) Infantry Division on the Maginot Line. He and his comrades were subsequently attached to the French Tenth Army, and it was in this capacity that he was killed in action - or died of wounds - most likely at St. Valery on 6 June 1940.

Aged 21, he was the son of Thomas and Lilian Hogarth of Earsden, Northumberland.

He is one of three British soldiers buried in Oisemont Communal Cemetery, all of them casualties of the 6 June 1940, the others being 2nd Lieutenant I. A. Dundas of the 1st Lothians and Border Horse (R.A.C.) and Gunner R. H. Green of 51st Anti-Tank Regiment, R.A.

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£140

Starting price
£40