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The Boer War medal awarded to Doctor M. P. Cooke, a Civil Surgeon in South Africa
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Civil Surgeon M.P. Cooke) good very fine £120-150
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to Civilians from the Collection of John Tamplin.
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Montague Percy Cooke received his medical training at the Middlesex Hospital, becoming a L.R.C.P., London, a M.R.C.S., England, and a L.S.A. in 1888. He practised at Barnstaple, and in 1890 was at Totnes, in Devon, In the same year he became a Surgeon on S.S. Tartar, a ship of the Union Line. By 1893 he was practising in Ealing, but from 1895-99 he is recorded as having been travelling. In 1900 he was at Hoxton but, shortly afterwards, he was acting as a Civil Surgeon with the South African Field Force. Although still registered as practising in England, it appears that Doctor Cooke remained in South Africa until his death there on 28 April 1908.
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