An O.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain T. Cokayne, Sherwood Foresters

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, on 2nd type military ribbon; British War Medal 1914-20 (2 Lieut.); Defence Medal, unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (589 Q.M. Sjt., S. of M.); together with a similar set of four miniature dress medals (L.S. & G.C. is a G.V.R. issue), good very fine lot)
£240-280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine Collection of Medals to the Sherwood Foresters.

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Thomas Cockayne served as Quartermaster at the School of Musketry. He was appointed Lieutenant and Quartermaster in the Rifle Brigade in April 1914; 2nd Lieutenant in the Sherwood Foresters in August 1914. Later promoted to Lieutenant and attached to the Royal Irish Rifles. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 24 January 1916 (awarded the British War and Victory Medal - the latter not with lot). He retired in April 1920 having been awarded the M.B.E. (military) in July 1919 as an Assistant Instructor at the Army Training School. Between the wars he is believed to have been advanced in the Order to an O.B.E. Cokayne re-enlisted in 1939 as a 2nd Lieutenant (Quartermaster Land Forces).

The medals and miniatures together with two badges and a copied photograph are contained in a glass-fronted case, 322 x 270mm.; with M.B.E. case of issue; commission document appointing Cokayne a Quartermaster on 25 August 1914; riband bar; button; collar tabs (3); identity disk, named to ‘Cokayne I C.E. W.R.A.F. 17784’; together with copied research.