Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Major J. B. S. Cottam, Royal Artillery

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (Capt. J. B. S. Cottam. R.A.); General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Borneo, Malay Peninsula, unofficial retaining rod between clasps (Major J. B. S. Cottam. RA.); Jubilee 1977, unnamed as issued; Malaysia, ‘Kerana Perkhidmatan Am’, silvered, Malaysia, Pingat Jasa Malaysia Medal, silvered, good very fine (5) £160-£200

John Barnaby Stevenson Cottam was born in Bath, Somerset, in March 1928 and attested initially for the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment on 6 June 1946, being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 20 October 1948.