Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (N. Sister G. F. Fox. Q.A.R.N.N.S.) officially re-impressed naming; Victory Medal 1914-19 (2. Lieut. G. B. Cox); Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband, extremely fine (3) £60-£80

Gertrude Fanny Fox was born at Chorlton, Lancashire in 1882 and qualified at the London Hospital in 1913. She joined Royal Naval Hospital Haslar on 4 August 1914, and in May 1915 she was appointed to the Royal Naval Hospital Malta. In December 1916 after passage on H.M. Hospital Ship Rewa she rejoined Haslar, serving there until she resigned on 14 March 1919.

George Bernard Cox was born at Handsworth Staffordshire, on 31 July 1886. He was commissioned to the East Yorkshire Regiment from the Artists Rifles O.T.C., to be Second Lieutenant on 5 September 1916, and transferred to the Royal Anglesey Royal Engineers on 17 November 1917, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from April 1918. Promoted Lieutenant on 17 May 1919 he relinquished his commission on 1 April 1920. He was granted an Emergency Commission in the Second World War, and by 1945 held the Acting rank of Major in the Royal Engineers. He was an architect by profession, and co-founder of the firm of Harrison and Cox. He died at Minehead, Somerset in October 1978.