Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ten: Major C. Cox, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, late Black Watch

General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, Malaya, second clasp loose on riband, as issued (2751837 Sjt. G. Cox. Black. Watch.) initial officially corrected - see footnote; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these all privately engraved ‘132487 Major G. Cox. Black Watch’; U.N. Korea 1950-54 (132487 Major G. Cox. Black Watch) privately engraved naming; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (132487 Major G. Cox. Black Watch) renamed; Coronation 1953 (132487 Major G. Cox. Black Watch) privately engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (Capt. G. Cox. Foresters.) mounted court-style for display, suspension loose on last, traces of lacquer, generally very fine (10) £240-£280

George Cox attested for the Royal Highlanders (Black Watch), and served with the 2nd Battalion in pre-War Palestine, the medal roll showing that his medal was initially issued with the incorrect initial ‘J’. He was commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment on 25 May 1940, and was advanced Captain on 15 June 1943, and temporary Major on 10 July 1945. He was confirmed in the rank of Major on 19 September 1953, ands subsequently served on attachment to the King’s African Rifles. He relinquished his commission on 1 October 1956.

Sold with copied research which indicates, despite what is engraved on the medals, that the recipient never held a commission in the Black Watch.