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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 164

The campaign group of five awarded to Lieutenant Sir G. P. Hogg, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, who served as Governor of Assam

British War Medal 1914-20 (2 Lt. G. P. Hogg.); Delhi Durbar 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn together with an erased Victory Medal, good very fine

[K.C.I.E.] London Gazette 2 January 1939 (Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal, and lately Acting Governor of Assam).

[C.S.I.] London Gazette 19 June 1936 (Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal).

[C.I.E.] London Gazette 3 June 1932 (Commissioner, Burdwan Division, Bengal).

Gilbert Pitcairn Hogg was born on 2 February 1884 - presumably a scion of Robert Pitcairn, after whom the islands which took his name and were settled by the mutineers of the Bounty were named - and was educated Glasgow High School and Glasgow University. Sitting the Civil Service exam in 1907, he landed in India for the first time in November 1908, being posted to Eastern Bengal & Assam. By the outbreak of the Great War he was Vice-Chairman of the Chittagong Port Commissioners by July 1917 until being posted for military duties.

Made 2nd Lieutenant in the 49th Bengalis, he served in Egypt from August 1918, besides being a Lieutenant in the 42nd Assam Bengal Railway Rifles, Indian Defence Force; he took a single British War Medal for his troubles. Also serving as a Sessions Judge in Assam, Hogg returned to Bengal and was made Commissioner at Burdwan in July 1931.

This period was hot with anti-colonial violence and loud calls for self government. It was the diplomacy of men like Hogg that things did not boil over. Furthermore, assassinations, attacks and raids on Colonial Officials was commonplace. Having taken his C.I.E., he added the C.S.I. to his laurels and was acting Governor of Assam from June-October 1938. Eventually knighted for his noble services in India, Hogg returned to his native Scotland and died at Newton Mearns, Glasgow on 15 April 1950.

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Estimate
£200 to £300

Starting price
£160