Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Doctor Wilfred Leigh Cox, French Red Cross

British War and Victory Medals (W. L. Cox); France, Legion of Honour, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, enamel damage, fine; Medal of Gratitude, bronze, unnamed, very fine and better except where stated (4) £160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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Wilfred Leigh Cox was born in Bowdon, Cheshire on 15 August 1887. He received his medical training at the University of Manchester and at the Middlesex Hospital, graduating M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond. 1915. Entering France in June 1915, he served as House Surgeon at the Anglo-French-American Hospital, Paris, 1915-16 and was a Hon. Captain in the R.A.M.C. Dr Cox died of Typhoid Fever at Bournemouth on 28 February 1926.

With copied birth, marriage and death certificates, m.i.c. and other research. French awards not confirmed.