Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant G. W. Cox, Grenadier Guards, who served in 2nd Company of the Guards Mounted Infantry during the Boer War

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (2111. Sergt. G. W. Cox. 1/Gren. Gds.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (2111 Sert: W. Cox. Gren: Guards); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2111 Serjt: G. W. Cox: Gren: Guards.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (Sergt. G. W. Cox. Gren. Gds.) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (4)
£400-500

George William Cox was born at Portsea, Hampshire, and enlisted in the Grenadier Guards in October 1889. Advanced to Corporal in May 1895 and to Sergeant in May 1898, he was embarked for Egypt in July of the latter year and witnessed active service in the Sudan (Queen’s Medal; Khedive’s Medal & clasp). So, too, in South Africa, firstly in the period October 1899 to May 1901, and secondly from February 1902 until the end of hostilities, when, as a member of the 1st Battalion, he was attached to the 2nd Company of Guards Mounted Infantry - accompanying medal roll verification would suggest his combination of Medals & clasps is rare indeed. Cox was discharged in August 1904; sold with copied research and portrait photograph.