Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Lieutenant C. S. Cole, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, late Sussex Yeomanry and Surrey Yeomanry

1914-15 Star (45101 Pte., Surr. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (45101 Pte., Surr. Yeo.), these three late issues; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (2/Lt., 2/15 Sikhs), late Royal Mint issue, engraved in upright capitals, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (4) £160-200

Ex D.N.W. 29 June 2006.

Private Charles Stanley Cole, Surrey Yeomanry, entered the Egypt theatre of war on 19 March 1915. He later served as a Lance-Corporal in the Queen’s Regiment. Cole was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Sussex Yeomanry on 15 May 1918. Listed with the I.A.R.O. in November 1918 and ranked as a Lieutenant in May 1919. Recalled to the Indian Army on 13 January 1943; resigned on 28 November 1945 as a Hon. Captain. Sold with copied m.i.c. Medals issued in 1943.