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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 277

Miniature Awards: A Boer War Group of Six Attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel P.C. Cooper, Honourable Artillery Company Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, six clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, contemporarily engraved in serif capitals ´P.C. Cooper. H.A.C.´; 1914 Star, with Bar; British War and Victory Medals; Defence Medal; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., with integral top riband bar, nearly very fine or better, mounted as originally worn (6) Estimate £ 80-120 Lieutenant-Colonel Percie Cyril Cooper, T.D., (1874-1958), enlisted as a Private in No.4 Company, Honourable Artillery Company, 1897; served with the Mounted Infantry of the City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1901; promoted Lieutenant, 20.2.1904; Captain, 22.1.1906; served during the Great War as a Senior Company Commander with the rank of Major on the Western Front from 18.9.1914; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, 20.5.1917.

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