Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private W. Cowban, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

1914-15 Star (R-13607 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (R-13607 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.) good very fine (3) £40-50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection formed by Peter Wardrop.

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William Cowban was born and enlisted in Liverpool. He was wounded in the buttocks on 31 January 1916, and after a two months convalescing returned to France. He was killed in action in France and Flanders on 24 August 1916, at the Battle of Delville Wood.