Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant W. R. Cox, Royal Army Medical Corps

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14094946. Pte. W. R. Cox. R.A.M.C.) rank officially corrected; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (22541225 Pte. W. R. Cox. R.A.M.C.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style as worn, minor edge bruise to first, good very fine (3) £120-160

William Richard Cox was born in 1927, and enlisted into the Royal Army Medical Corps on 13 November 1945. Posted to Palestine, he served there for three years, before leaving the Army in 1948. He re-enlisted back into the R.A.M.C. at Wolverhampton on 20 October 1950, and served with the unit as a Medical Orderly Class III in Korea from 22 August 1952 until 6 September 1953. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 19 October 1955, having held the rank of Sergeant, and was finally discharged on 19 October 1962, after a further 12 years’ service.

Sold together with the recipient’s Regular Army Certificate of Service.