Auction Catalogue

15 December 2011

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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15 December 2011

Hammer Price:
£2,400

A Great War ‘Mesopotamia operations’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lt-Colonel C.E. Cox, Army Service Corps
Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, minor enamel damage; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., A.S.C.) slight edge bruise; 1914-15 Star (Major, A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lt. Col.)’ Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1st issue, 1 clasp, Sudan 1912, unnamed, good very fine and better (6) £1400-1800

D.S.O. London Gazette 7 February 1918. ‘... for distinguished services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Mesopotamia.’
M.I.D.
London Gazette 15 August 1917; 12 March 1918; 27 August 1918; 5 June 1919 (all for Mesopotamia).

Charles Edward Cox was born on 30 January 1881. Educated at Sandhurst, he was commissioned a 2d Lieutenant in the A.S.C. on 21 February 1900. Posted to South Africa, he served in operations in Cape Colony, February 1901; operations in Transvaal, March-August 1901; and operations in the Orange River Colony, August 1901-May 1902. Promoted Lieutenant in April 1901, Cox remained in South Africa until 1905 and was promoted to Captain in August 1905. Attached to the Egyptian Army from 3 February 1911 (Egyptian Army Transport Corps) with the rank of Bimbashi (Major), Cox served in the operations against the Beir and Annuak Tribes in S.E. Sudan, 1912. He was advanced to Major in October 1914. He served in the Salonika theatre of war, September 1915-January 1916 and then with the Egypt Expeditionary Force, January-August 1916. From April 1916 he was in command of the 53rd Divisional Train. Arriving in Mesopotamia in August 1916, he served in that theatre until December 1918. For his services in Mespootamia he was four times mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. On 2 June 1919 he was granted the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. In the early 1920’s he was posted to India as Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies, remaining there until December 1926. Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1923, Cox retired on 15 October 1927 and died on 12 March 1937. With copied research.