Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.O., O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Colonel S. M. de Kock, South African Medical Corps

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, some damage to reverse centre; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., S.A.M.C.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); War and Africa Service Medals (312085 S. M. de Kock); Jubilee 1935 (Lt. Col., S.A.M.C.), mounted for display; together with a Silver Prize Medal, engraved, ‘M. de Kock, 1st Prize Govt. Cup Compt-97-’, good very fine and better except where stated (9) £1100-1300

D.S.O. London Gazette 22 August 1918. ‘De Koek, Servase Meyer, Lieut.-Colonel, South African Medical Corps’ ‘... for distinguished service in the field, and in connection with the Campaign in German South-West Africa, 1914-15. To date 1 Jan. 1916’. Note different spelling of surname.

Servase Meyer De Kock was born in Colesburg, Cape Province in 1874. Educated at the Diocesan College, Rondebosch and Edinburgh University, he qualified as a M.B. and Ch.B. In the 1934 edition of South African Who’s Who, he is listed as a Colonel in the S.A.M.C. and A.D.M.S. of No.11 Military District.