Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891 (Captain A. F. Cooper 1st. Bn. R.W. Fus.) minor edge nick, nearly extremely fine £500-£700

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2014.

Augustus Frederic Cooper was born in Clifton, Gloucestershire, on 25 January 1861 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant from the Royal Military College on 11 August 1880. He was promoted Lieutenant on 1 July 1881 and Captain on 17 July 1889, and served with 1st Battalion during the Hazara Expedition to the Black Mountains, North West Frontier of India, in 1891. He was appointed Adjutant of the 4th (Militia) Battalion on 1 September 1894, and was posted to the Reserve of Officers in the rank of Major on 5 October 1898.

Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the Officers of the 1st Battalion who served in the Hazara Expedition, in which the recipient is identified.