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Auction: 4004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 207

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel E.C. Cobbold, York and Lancaster Regiment Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (Capt. E.C. Cobbold, 1/Yk. & Lanc: Rgt.); 1914 Star (Lt: Col: York: & Lanc: R); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Lt.Col.), nearly extremely fine (4) Estimate £ 400-450 C.B. London Gazette 2.3.1915 Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Cazenove Cobbold Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Cazenove Cobbold C.B (1866-1932), born at Ufford, Suffolk; educated Charterhouse; entered York and Lancs Regiment 1885; Captain 1895; served in South Africa 1899-1900 including the actions at action at Spion Kop, Vaal Kranz and Pieters Hill; Major 1901; advanced to Lieutenant Colonel 1912; disembarked with 2nd Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, France 7.9.1914 (C.B.; Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 17.2.1915); invalided home, returned to France 1917and was again invalided home; retired 1919

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