Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lance-Sergeant W. N. Cox, Royal Marine Artillery

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (11045 Bombr., R.M.A., H.M.S. Swiftsure); 1914-15 Star (R.M.A. 11045 Cpl.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M.A. 11045 L. Sgt.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (R.M.A. 11045 Gnr., R.M.A.) contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine (5) £180-220

William Norman Cox was born in Edmonton, London on 9 May 1886. He enlisted into the Royal Marine Artillery in October 1904 and served as a Gunner 3rd Class. Promoted to Bombardier in March 1913 and to Corporal in January 1915. During the Great War he served on the pre-dreadnought battleship H.M.S. Swiftsure, March 1913-June 1915, serving on the East Indies Station and later in the Dardanelles. Later in the war he was based on Powerful and Hindustan. His last ship was the battlecruiser H.M.S. Renown from which he was discharged ashore in May 1919 having completed his first period of limited engagement. In May 1919 he joined the R.F.R. and then re-enlisted as a Gunner in the R.M.A. in August 1921. He was invalided from the service in March 1927. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. in April 1922 when serving on the battleship H.M.S. Malaya. With copied service papers and other research.