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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 78

Four: Boatswain's Mate R. Hodge, Royal Navy

Abyssinia 1867 (R. Hodge Capn. Fcle. H.M.S. Dryad); Turkish Crimea 1855, British die, pierced with ring suspension; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp loose upon riband, Sebastopol (R. Hodge. H.M.S. Agamemnon.), privately impressed naming; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Rd. Hodge. Bos. Mate. H.M.S. Cambridge. 21yrs.), minor official correction to this last, very fine (4)

Richard Hodge was born at East Peckham on 7 July 1833 and volunteered for the Royal Navy on 7 July 1853, serving aboard Agamemnon. He was aboard Cambridge from 26 October 1865-7 May 1867 and thence joined Dryad, whose books he was entered in during the Abyssinia Expedition of 1867. He was shore-pensioned on 3 March 1882.

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