Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Squadron Sergeant Major H. J. Cook, Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians), who was posted missing, presumed died, on the Western Front on 2 April 1918

British War and Victory Medals (551802 Sq. S. Mjr. H. J. Cook. L.S.H. -R.C.-) nearly extremely fine (2) £100-£140

Harry James Cook was born in Rochester, Kent, on 1 August 1884, and having emigrated to Canada served as a Policeman in the Royal North-West Mounted Police. He attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 12 April 1916, and served with Lord Strathcona’s Horse during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 December 1917. He was posted missing, presumed died, on 2 April 1918: ‘wounded by shell fire during an attack on the Bois de Senecat, the enemy shelled the wood very heavily and when it was possible to clear the wounded, he could not be found, and no information has since been received concerning him.’ (recipient’s service record refers). He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, France.