Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War 1918 ‘Battle of Bapaume’ awarded to Lance-Corporal G. Cockshoot, South Lancashire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 25 September 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (27222 L. Cpl. G. Cockshoot. 2/S. Lan: R.) edge bruise, good very fine £260-300

M.M. London Gazette 27 June 1918.

George Cockshoot was born at Darwen, Lancashire, and attested for the South Lancashire Regiment at Preston. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War, and was awarded his Military Medal ‘for excellent work with his Lewis gun in helping to repel a German attack and for the counter-attack, at Marchies, near Maricourt, on 22 March 1918, during the Battle of Bapaume.’ He was killed in action on the Western Front on 25 September 1918, and is buried in Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, Belgium.