Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant T. Cowie, King’s Dragoon Guards, later Police Constable, War Department Constabulary

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (D-10854 Pte. T. Cowie. 1-K.D. Gds.) initial officially corrected; Defence Medal; Coronation 1937; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (390151 Sjt. T. Cowie. K.D.G.); Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Const. Thomas Cowie) edge bruising and contact marks to the two G.V.R. awards, the GSM worn, therefore fair to fine, the rest better (5) £180-£220

Thomas Cowie was born at Wallsend, Northumberland, on 27 December 1899, and attested for the 1st King’s Dragoon Guards at Guildford, Surrey, on 30 August 1916 from the Gordon Boys’ Home, Chobham, Surrey. He served with them at home during the Great War, before proceeding to Basra, Mesopotamia on 16 March 1920. He saw further service in Germany, Egypt, and India; was promoted Sergeant on 3 October 1931; and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 72 of 1935. He was discharged on 18 September 1938, after 22 years and 20 days’ service. He subsequently joined the War Department Constabulary.

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