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The Collection of Medals to Musicians formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord

Llewellyn Williams Lord, Jr

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27 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£70

Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (7061 Dmr: G. Cooper. Hants: Regt.) contact marks, nearly very fine £60-80

George Cooper was born on 25 August 1874 in Kent and attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 25 May 1889. Appointed a Bandsman on 3 November 1893, he served with the Rifle Corps in South Africa from 18 September 1899 until 21 September 1902 (entitled to a Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps Cape Colony, Defence of Ladysmith, and Orange Free State; and a King’s South Africa Medal with 2 clasps), and was wounded at Lombard’s Kop on 30 October 1899. He transferred to the Hampshire Regiment as a Drummer on 1 January 1904, and was awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with a Gratuity of £5 per Army Order 101 of 1909. He was discharged on 24 May 1910, after 21 years’ service, and died on 20 July 1949 at Woolwich, London.