Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private E. J. B. Cocksedge, 1st Mounted Brigade Scouts, South African Expeditionary Force, late Imperial Yeomanry and Transvaal Mounted Rifles

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia (4706 Tpr. E. Cocksedge, 50th Coy. 17th Imp. Yeo.); Natal 1906, no clasp (Tpr. B. Cocksedge, Transvaal Mtd. Rifles), note initial; 1914-15 Star (Pte. E. J. B. Cocksedge, 1st M.B. Scouits), ); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Pte. E. J. B. Cocksedge, 1st M.B. Scouts), very fine and better (5) £400-500

Ernest John Bloomfield Cocksedge, the son of George Bloomfield Cocksedge of Guildford, Surrey, served in Rhodesia and Cape Colony with the 50th Company, 17th Imperial Yeomanry, and was also entitled to the clasp for “South Africa 1901”. Having then served as a Trooper in the Transvaal Mounted Rifles during the Natal Rebellion in 1906 (Medal), he enlisted in the South Africa Expeditionary Force at Roberts Heights in December 1915, and served in the 1st Mounted Brigade Scouts up until April 1916, when he was admitted to hospital with malaria - and following which he was re-embarked for Durban prior to being discharged as medically unfit in February 1917.