Four: Chief Petty Officer Cook A. G. Couzens, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (A. G. Couzens, Cks. Mte, H.M.S. Terrible.) impressed naming; China 1900, no clasp (A. G. Couzens, Cks. Mate, H.M.S. Terrible.); British War and Victory Medals (341872 A. G. Couzens. Ch. Sh. Ck. R.N.) contact marks and edge bruising to first two, these nearly very fine, the Great War pair better (4) £600-£800

Arthur George Couzens was born in Titchfield, Hampshire, on 18 October 1878, and joined the Royal Navy as a Cook’s Mate on 26 January 1898. He joined H.M.S. Terrible on 18 June 1898, and served in her in South Africa during the Boer War, and in China during the Boxer Rebellion. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Dolphin until 7 March 1916, and subsequently in H.M.S. Canada, and was advanced Chief Petty Officer Cook on 17 May 1919. He was finally shore pensioned on 6 June 1921.