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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 736

(x) Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (PO/6416. Alfred B. Cox. Col. Sert. Major. R.M.L.I.), very fine

Alfred Benjamin Cox was born in December 1878 and attested for the Royal Marine Light Infantry in February 1893, his trade listed as 'Greenwich School Boy'. He appears to have spent the majority of his service with the Portsmouth Division and, apart from a minor blip in his career when he was apprehended and reduced in rank for desertion, climbed steadily up the promotion ladder and was appointed Colour Sergeant in 1917. During this time he was serving on the converted minelayer H.M.S. Princess Margaret, which had the distinction of laying the most mines of any R.N. ship during the Great War.

Awarded the medal for Long Service & Good Conduct in 1920, Cox was discharged a year later, his general character assessed as 'Very Good' and giving his address as 23 Zetland Road, Gosport.

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Sold for
£110

Starting price
£30