Orders, Decorations and Medals

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 3 clasps, 1892, 1893-94, 1887-8 (Lieut. S. Cotterell, 1/W.I. Rgt.) the clasps mounted in order listed, the 1887-8 clasp having been issued without ‘lugs’ for attaching further clasps, extremely fine and very scarce £600-800

Richard Stanley Cotterill was born in Surbiton, Surrey, on 7 October 1864, and was educated at Harrow School. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the West India Regiment, being promoted Lieutenant in March 1889 and Captain in April 1894.

He saw active service on the coast of West Africa in the expedition against the Yonnies in 1887-88 (Medal with Clasp), and in the operations in Sierra Leone in 1892 (Clasp). He took part in the operations against the Sofas in 1893-94 and was mentioned in despatches, London Gazette 28 February 1894, for having ‘behaved with great coolness and gallantry at the passage of the Kore mountain, at Waima, and at Bagbwema’; and took part in the expedition to the Gambia in 1894 against Chief Fodi Silah, being again mentioned in despatches, London Gazette 4 May 1894 (Clasp).

Captain Cotterell died of enteric fever at his home in Eastbourne on 21 December 1894. Sold with further research.