A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars

Three: Lieutenant A. C. Le H. Cockbain, 11th Hussars

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal, with Army Council condolence slip (Lieutenant A. C. Le H. Cockbaine), Ministry of Pensions illuminated memorial scroll (Lieutenant Anthony C. Le Hunte Cockbain, 11th Hussars) and in card box of issue addressed to his widow, extremely fine (3) £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars.

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Anthony Clifford Le Hunte Cockbain was the son of Thomas Herbert Cockbain and of Edith Clara Byng Cockbain, and husband of Averil C. Cockbain, of Sithney, Cornwall. He was killed in action on 28 November 1942 and is buried in Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel.

The lot is accompanied by two framed studio portraits, both in uniform, one surmounted with regimental badge; the June 1949 issue of the XI Hussar Journal; and a copy of The Eleventh at War by Dudley Clarke, presented to Mrs A. C. Cockbain by the regiment in memory of her late husband.