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Auction: 24112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 529

Pair: Lieutenant E. O. Harger, 171st Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers, who died of wounds in September 1918

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.E. O. Harger), sold together with card boxes of issue, nearly extremely fine (2)

Edwin Oscar Hager was born at Greenwich on 25 June 1881 and worked as a Mining Engineer whilst also joining the 20th Middlesex on 2 November 1897 with the Regimental Number 5251. He left the Regiment on 27 October 1903 with the stated reason being to go abroad, likely South Africa where he was living and working, still as a Mining Engineer, in Transvaal.

Joining the 28th (Artists Rifles) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment on 28 June 1917 he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 21 December 1917 with the Royal Engineers. Hager was posted to the 171st Tunnelling Company in Belgium and was there during the final months of the war.

Mortally wounded in action in September 1918 he died at the 97th Field Ambulance on 23 September 1918. Hager is buried at Westoutre British Cemetery and was survived by his wife, living at Maraisburg, South Africa; sold together with copied service papers.

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Sold for
£110

Starting price
£70