Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private H. Cobley, North Staffordshire Regiment - served in the Machine Gun Section of the regiment in Sudan

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3448 Pte., 1/N. Staff. R.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (3448 Pte., North Staff. Regt.) suspension a little slack; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (3448 Pte., N. Stafford. Regt.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, Firket, Hafir (No. 3-448 Pte., 1 N. Staff. R.) some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (4) £1000-1200

One of 18 men of the 1st Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment, Machine Gun Section, at Sudan 1896.

For another man to this Machine Gun Section, see D.N.W. 15 December 2011, lot 942 - group of three to Private G. Saunders, North Staffordshire Regiment (£1,600).