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Auction: 8023 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 221

Army of India 1799-1826, short hyphen reverse die type, two clasps, Capture of Deig, Nepaul (Capt. J. Cock, 21st. N.I.), officially impressed, unit partially officially corrected, edge bruising, minor contact marks, very fine Estimate £ 2,800-3,200 Major-General James Cock, born Glasgow, June 1780; Commissioned Ensign, October 1796; on the passage out to India was appointed to do duty with a detachment of recruits at the Cape, that Colony having been threatened by a Dutch fleet; arrived in India and posted to the 7th Native Infantry, February 1797; Lieutenant, October 1797; transferred to 1/18th Native Infantry, May 1800; served with a detachment under the command of Colonel P. Powell, when he defeated the Nawab Rumsham Bahauder, at Kopra in Bundelkhand; served during the Second Mahratta War as part of the Commander-in-Chief General Lake´´s Grand Army, and was present at the siege and capture of Deig, 11-23.12.1804, and at the unsuccessful siege of Bhurtpoor, 2.1.-23.2.1805; Captain, September 1807; transferred to 2/21st Native Infantry, and served during the Nepal Campaign of 1814-15, where he commanded a small Detachment on the Morung Frontier, which compelled the enemy to evacuate a stockade; Major, May 1815; served again during the Nepal Campaign of 1815-16, where he commanded a Wing of the 21st Native Infantry during the successful attack on the stockaded heights of Fort Harriharpur; at the conclusion of hostilities he was ordered to proceeded with his Wing across the Hills, to try and find a route down to the Plains suitable for troops; Lieutenant-Colonel, March 1821; transferred to 1/12th Native Infantry; Appointed Commandant, May 1824; Colonel, June 1829; requested to be recommended to His Majesty to be appointed as a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, April 1936; Commanded the Station at Barrackpore, 1837-38; Appointed to the Command of the Benares Division, May 1838; Major-General, June 1838; Appointed Colonel, 9th Native Infantry, 1846. Major-General Cock died at home in Suffolk, March 1851, three weeks after the announcement of the Army of India Medal in the London Gazette, 28.2.1851, but before he could receive the medal he so bravely earned. He never did receive the C.B., due, he felt, to the bias shown out in India to Local Major Generals of the Queen´´s Army against more senior Officers of the Company´´s Army.

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