Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel M. R. Pocock, D.S.O., Indian Army, who was killed in action in Mesopotamia 1917

Africa General Service 1902-56, 2 clasps, Somaliland 1902-04, Jidballi (Lieut: M. R. Pocock. 27th Punjabis.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (Captn. M. R. Pocock, 28th Panjabis) small official correction to unit, mounted as worn but ribbons frayed and second medal detached, toned, good very fine (2) £500-600

Malcolm Robertson Pocock was born in 1876 and appointed a Second Lieutenant in 1896; Lieutenant 1898; Captain 1905. At the outbreak of the war he was a Major acting Lieutenant-Colonel and had been mentioned in despatches for the operations on the North West Frontier. He was killed in action on 5 November 1917. On this day the Allied Forces engaged the Turkish Army, which had fallen back over the Diala River towards Kifri and along the Tigris River. The announcement of the D.S.O. appeared in the London Gazette on 7 February 1918.