Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Corporal F. J. Cobb, Somerset Light Infantry, taken Prisoner of War at the Battle of Ligny, 26 August 1914, after only 5 days at the Front

1914 Star (8609 Cpl. F. S. Cobb 1/Som: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (8609 Cpl. F. S. Cobb. Som. L.I.) nearly extremely fine (3) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Prisoners of War.

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Frederick J. Cobb was born in Bath, Somerset, in 1890 and attested for the Somerset Light Infantry prior to 1911. Having passed a course in Saddlery at Woolwich in June 1912 he was promoted Lance Corporal in November of that year, and on the outbreak of the Great War proceeded to France with the 1st Battalion, serving on the Western Front from 21 August 1914. Wounded in action at the Battle of Ligny on 26 August 1914, he was taken Prisoner of War, after only five days at the front, and was held at Doberitz Prisoner of War Camp in Germany until being transferred to Holland on parole on 5 January 1918. He finally returned to England on 22 November 1918, and died in 1961.

Sold together with a photographic image of the recipient.