Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel M. R. Pocock, D.S.O., 28th Punjabis, who was killed in action in Mesopotamia in November 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) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £400-£500

Malcolm Robertson Pocock was born on 17 May 1876. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 22 January 1896; Lieutenant, Indian Army, on 4 July 1898; Captain on 22 January 1905; and Major (A/Lt.-Col.) on 22 January 1914. Pocock served in East Africa 1903-05 (Medal and two Clasps), and on the North West Frontier in 1908 (Despatches, Medal and Clasp). He was killed in action on 5 November 1917, when 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 1917, ‘in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Mesopotamia.’ He is commemorated by name on the Basra Memorial.