Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Colour Sergeant F. Cox, Royal Marines Artillery, mentioned in despatches for service aboard the battlecruiser H.M.S. Indomitable at the battle of Jutland

1914-15 Star (R.M.A.6668 Sgt.); British War and Victory Medals, with incorrect M.I.D. oakleaf emblem (R.M.A.6668 Cr. Sgt.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6668 Frederick Cox, Corporal, R.M.A.); France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1917, with incorrect bronze oakleaf emblem on ribbon, mounted for display, some with contact marks, very fine and better (7) £250-300

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 September 1916. ‘... for services rendered by Petty Officers and men of the Grand Fleet in the action in the North Sea on the 31st May-1st June, 1916.’

France, Croix de Guerre London Gazette 30 November 1917.

Frederick Cox was born in Nottingham on 28 February 1879. He enlisted into the R.M.A. at London on 21 April 1897. He was promoted to Bombardier in May 1906; Sergeant in April 1912 and Colour Sergeant in January 1918. Cox served throughout the war aboard the battlecruiser Indomitable. As such he served in the ship during the pursuit of the Goeben and Breslau during the early months of the war; at the battle of Dogger Bank, 23 January 1915, during which she fired over 100 heavy calibre shells at the doomed Blücher and was subsequently obliged to tow the damaged Lion back to port; and then at Jutland, 31 May-1 June 1916 as part of the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron, when the ship formed part of the vanguard of the British Battle Fleet - her sister ship, the Invincible, being destroyed in the battle. For his service in the latter action, Cox was mentioned in despatches. He was later awarded the French Croix de Guerre. Cox was demobilized on 14 May 1919.

With copied service paper and gazette extracts.