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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 57

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel C.A. Roosmale Cocq, Gurkha Rifles, Late Bombay Light Infantry India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., one clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Lieut. C.A. Roosmale Cocq. 3rd. Bo: Lt. Infy.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. C.A. Roosmale Cocq, Comdt. 1st. 8th. Gurkha Rifles.), both renamed; Delhi Durbar 1903, silver (Capt. C.A. Roosmale Cocq. Erinpura Irregulars.), contemporarily engraved in large sans-serif capitals, toned, nearly extremely fine, mounted as worn (4) Estimate £ 300-340 Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Alexander Roosmale-Cocq, born July 1868; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Leicestershire Regiment, July 1889; seconded for service with the Indian Staff Corps, November 1890; Lieutenant, April 1891; transferred Indian Staff Corps, April 1892; served on the North West Frontier of India with the Malakand and Buner Field Forces, and present at the attack and capture of the Tanga Pass; Captain, 6.7.1900; Appointed to the Erinpura Irregular Force as Wing Officer, 29.11.1901; Major, 6.7.1907; transferred to the 10th Gurkha Rifles as a Company Commander, 7.10.1908; Second-in-Command, 8th Gurkha Rifles, 6.10.1914; served during the Great War as Lieutenant-Colonel, 3rd Battalion, 5th Gurkha Rifles; retired 8.8.1917.

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