Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Civil Surgeon M. P. Cooke.) extremely fine £180-220

Montague Percy Cooke was trained at Middlesex Hospital, qualifying in 1888. He practised at Fern House, Landkey, Barnstaple and in 1890, at Habertonford, Totnes. Later in 1890, he became a surgeon in S.S. Tartar, a ship of the Union Castle Line. After service as a civil surgeon during the Boer War, Cooke returned to Ealing before emigrating to South Africa, where he died in 1908.