Orders, Decorations and Medals

A civil B.E.M. group of four awarded to Storekeeper S. H. Cook, Ordnance Survey Department, late Private, 11th Hussars

British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Sidney H. Cook); British War and Victory Medals (13857 Pte., 11-Hrs.); Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Sidney Harold Cook, B.E.M.) mounted for display with a copy clasp to a 1914 Star, good very fine (4) £200-240

B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1952. ‘Sidney Harold Cook, Class II Storekeeper, Ordnance Survey Department (Southampton.)’

Sidney Harold Cook joined ‘B’ Squadron in France on 9 October 1914. He was wounded in action at Wulverghem, 2 November 1914. Later served in the 3rd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment. Awarded the B.E.M. for services as a Storekeeper with the Ordnance Survey Department and was later awarded the I.S.M. With copied research - entitled to the 1914 Star with clasp.