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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 236

Five: Captain W.B. Cooper, Chinese Labour Corps, Late Customs College, Peking British War and Victory Medals (Capt. W.B. Cooper); China, Republic, Order of the Golden Grain, Third Class neck Badge, 60mm, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel damage to reverse; China, Republic, Order of the Golden Grain, Fifth Class breast Badge, 46mm, silver-gilt and enamel; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Fourth Class breast Badge, 70mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 53mm, silver, gold, and enamel, with rosette on riband, good very fine, with lapel rosettes for the Orders of the Golden Grain and the Medjidieh, contained in a Baldwin & Sons, London, fitted case (5) Estimate £ 600-800 China, Order of the Golden Grain, Fifth Class London Gazette 18.10.1918 William Boyd Cooper, Esq., formerly of the Customs College, Peking. Captain William Boyd Cooper, born Belfast, 1878; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Chinese Labour Corps, 12.2.1917, and served with the Corps in France from 12.2.1917; Lieutenant, 12.8.1918; advanced Captain, General List; relinquished his Commission, 5.4.1919. Third Class Order of the Golden Grain and Order of the Medjidieh unconfirmed. Provenance: Spink, 23.9.1993.

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