Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Stoker 1st Class Y. Cox, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (K.34936 Sto. 1, R.N.) very fine (2) £30-50

Youth Cox was born in Grafton, Wiltshire on 17 February 1886. A Motor Car Mechanic by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy for the duration of the war on 6 July 1916. Serving initially as a Stoker 2nd Class, he was advanced to Stoker 1st Class in September 1916. Initially based at Victory II, July 1916-February 1917, he later served on the destroyers Llewellyn, February-March 1917; Undine, May 1917-July 1918, and Tobago, October 1918-February 1919. He was demobilised on 8 March 1919. With copied service paper and some family details.