Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. Cook, Army Ordnance Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (4446 Pte. W. Cooke [sic], A.O.C.); 1914-15 Star (S.4446 Pte. W. Cook. A.O.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (S-4446 Pte. W. Cook. A.O.C.) very fine (3) £100-£140

William Cook was born in Andover, Hampshire, in 1878 and attested for the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment at Winchester on 16 July 1900. He was embodied for service during the Boer War on 29 July 1900, but before proceeding overseas enlisted in the Army Ordnance Corps at Winchester on 17 December 1900. He served with the A.O.C. in South Africa from 29 May 1901 to 2 May 1906, suffering a fracture of his skull on 16 April 1904, before transferring to the Reserve on 17 December 1908.

Recalled to active service following the outbreak of the Great War, Cook served with the Army Ordnance Corps on the Western Front from 17 October 1915, and was finally demobilised on 16 June 1919.

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