Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private R. S. Cockburn, Army Service Corps, late King’s Own Scottish Borderers and 2/4th Lincolnshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (8464 Pte. R. Cockburn. Vol. Coy. K.O. Scot: Bord:); 1914-15 Star (03883 Pte. R. S. Cockburn A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (S2SR-03883 Pte. R. S. Cockburn. A.S.C.) mounted as worn, very fine (4) £130-150

Robert S. Cockburn served with the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, in the South African War. He served in France from 18 September 1915, with 344 M.T. Coy., A.S.C., and later with 43 Training Reserve Battalion, before joining 2/4th Lincolnshire Regiment, which unit took part in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion in 1916. Sold with copied medal roll entries and copied m.i.c.