Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:
Three: Private G. C. S. Cox, Gloucestershire Regiment, who was killed in action at the Battle of Langemarck on 12 August 1917
1914-15 Star (2509 Pte. C. G. S. Cox. Glouc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (2509 Pte. C. G. S. Cox. Glouc. R.); Memorial Plaque (Charles Gordon Stuart Cox) in card envelope; together with one flattened original name medal box of issue, nearly extremely fine

Three: Private T. S. Cox, Gloucestershire Regiment, who was killed in action in the fighting for Pozieres Ridge on 23 July 1916
British War Medal 1914-20, naming erased; Victory Medal 1914-19 (5293 Pte. T. S. Cox. Glouc. R.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Stuart Cox) in card envelope, edge bruise to BWM, very fine and better (7) £200-£240

Charles Gordon Stuart Cox was born at Margate, the son of the Rev. Charles Edward Stuart Cox, and attested for the Gloucestershire Regiment at Bristol. He served with the 1st/6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 March 1915, and died of wounds received during the Battle of Langemarck on 12 August 1917. He is buried at Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.

Sold with an original postcard photograph of the recipient, two original named transmission condolence slips for the medals, and original registered envelope for the memorial plaque.

Thomas George Stuart Cox was born at Tockington, Gloucestershire, the son of the Rev. Charles Edward Stuart Cox, and the brother of the above, and attested for the Gloucestershire Regiment at Bristol. He served with the 1st/5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action at Pozieres Ridge on 23 July 1916. He is buried at Pozieres British Cemetery, Ovillers La Boiselle, France.

Sold with an original postcard photograph of the recipient, and memorial plaque envelope,