Lot Archive

Lot

№ 786

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9 December 1999

Hammer Price:
£140

Five: Private A. Cook, Loyal Regiment

General Service 1918-62,
1 clasp, Palestine (3853628 Pte., Loyal R.); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals, nearly extremely fine (5) £100-150

Private Arthur Cook is recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as having died 18 December 1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand, along with 7,000 other victims of the notorious Burma, Siam railway.