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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 667

(x) Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, V.R. (Lieutenant A. F. Cotton Corps of Guides), suspension a little loose, very fine or better

Arthur Frederick Cotton was born around 1852 and initially served in No. 5 Company of the 18th 'Prescott' Battalion of Infantry. Appointed provisional 2nd Lieutenant in the New Westminster Rifle Company on 28 September 1889, he was promoted Lieutenant and posted to No. 1 Battery, New Westminster B.C. Brigade of Garrison Artillery in March 1890. Cotton served with this Battery until April 1892, whereupon he joined the Corps of Guides, acting as a District Intelligence Officer, before his retirement in 1906. He later lived at Penticton, New Westminster, British Columbia, before his death in 1925, aged 73; sold with copied research.

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£250