Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private G. Cox, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached Gloucestershire Regiment in Korea

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (6400070 Pte. G. Cox. R. Sussex.) with unofficial ‘Imjin’ riband bar; U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; together with a United States of America Presidential Unit Citation riband bar, with one bronze oak leaf cluster emblem, nearly very fine (5) £240-£280

George William Cox attested for the Royal Sussex Regiment as a Drummer Boy at Chichester on 13 June 1938 and served with the 1st Battalion in Egypt from 10 November 1938. Still underage at the outbreak of the Second World War, Cox went with the 1st Battalion to join the 7th Indian Infantry Brigade on 22 November 1940, and proceeded to Abyssinia on 30 December 1940. Returning to Egypt on 30 April 1941, the Battalion then crossed into Libya for the North African Campaign, and saw further service in Cyprus from March to August 1942; in North Africa (Libya and Tunisia) from August 1942 to July 1943, and then in Palestine from September 1943.

Cox returned home on 23 April 1944, and was discharged on 10 March 1950, after 11 years and 271 days’ service. Recalled for active service in Korea, he served overseas with the Gloucestershire Regiment from 1 October 1950 to 15 January 1952, ands was finally discharged on 29 February 1952.

Sold with the recipient’s original Red Book Certificate of Service.