Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant W. R. Cooper, 8th (Service) Battalion, South Wales Borderers, who was killed in action on the Salonika Front on 24 May 1918, and was posthumously Mentioned in Despatches

1914-15 Star (16713 L. Sjt W. R. Cooper. S. Wales Bord:); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (16713 Sjt. W. R. Cooper. S. Wales Bord.); with Southern Counties Cross Country Association Medal, bronze, Newport Harriers lapel badge, Newport Athletic Club, fob, bronze, Newport South Wales Intertown Sports Medal 1907, bronze, reverse engraved ‘4 Miles W. Cooper’, and a Newport Rugby Club, glazed silver and enamel fob, good very fine (lot)
£100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 28 November 1917 (Salonika).

William Richard Cooper was born in St. Woollos, Newport. He served during the Great War with the South Wales Borderers in the French theatre of war from 9 May 1915. Cooper served with the 8th (Service) Battalion in Salonika, and was killed in action, 24 May 1917. On the latter date the Battalion were on the Doiran - Vardar front, in the trenches at ‘Tomato Hill - Gog and Magog Line.’

Sergeant Cooper is buried in the Karasouli Military Cemetery, Greece.