Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. R. Cooper, Border Regiment, who was wounded in action at the Battle of the Somme, 14 July 1916

British War and Victory Medals (23314 Pte. J. R. Cooper. Bord. R.); together with a silver cigarette case, hallmarks for Birmingham 1919, the outside front inscribed ‘Blighty Girls K.J. J.R.C. 1914-1919’, very fine, the cigarette case in reasonable condition (3) £60-£80

John R. Cooper attested for the Border Regiment and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, receiving a gun shot wound to the left arm on 14 July 1916, on which date the Battalion was involved in an attack on Bazentin-le-Grand Wood, and suffered 220 casualties.

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