Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Stoker First Class F. Cooper, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (286005 Sto: F. Cooper, H.M.S. Terrible.); China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (F. Cooper, Sto., H.M.S. Terrible.) contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £400-£500

Frank Cooper was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, on 7 May 1876 and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker Second Class on 18 September 1897. He entered H.M.S. Terrible on 11 November 1898, and served in her until 28 October 1902, being promoted Stoker on 1 April 1899. He went on to witness active service with H.M.S. Terrible in the Boer War and Boxer Rebellion, being landed in Natal and in China for the Relief of Pekin operations. He was advanced Stoker First Class on 1 July 1906, and was shore invalided on 5 August 1909.