The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel E. C....

The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel E. C. Cox, Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, Royal Engineers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E., (Civil) Commander’s 1st type badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class badge, silver and enamel; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s badge, silver; Jubilee 1935; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., Territorial, with integral top riband bar; Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold, Military Division, Chevalier’s badge, silver and enamel; Romania, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Officer’s badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s badge, silver-gilt and enamel, all mounted for wear on two separate mounting pins, nearly extremely fine (8) £100-£140 --- C.V.O. London Gazette 1 February 1937: Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Charles Cox, C.B.E., M.V.O. M.V.O. Fourth Class London Gazette 3 July 1926: Edwin Charles Cox, Esq., C.B.E. C.B.E. London Gazette 7 January 1918: Major Edwin Charles Cox, Superintendent of the Line, South Eastern and Chatham Railway ‘For services in connection with the War.’ Officer, Order of St. John London Gazette 25 October 1927. Edwin Charles Cox was born in 1868 and first joined the South Eastern Railway as a junior clerk in 1883. He served as Superintendent of the Line, South Eastern and Chatham Railway, from 1911 to 1923 and during the Great War he was responsible for a daily average of 140 special military trains from London to Dover and Folkestone; of the 13 million men transported not one was lost. For his services in connection with the War he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, being invested with his insignia by H.M. King George V at Buckingham Palace on 20 February 1918. He was additionally honoured by the Governments of Belgium in 1918; Romania in 1924; and France in 1927. Cox served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, Royal Engineers (Territorial Force), and was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1932 (London Gazette 23 February 1932). Advanced Chief Operating Superintendent, Southern Railway, in 1923; and Traffic Manager, Southern Railway, in 1930. He retired in 1936, and in recognition of his services as Traffic Manager of Southern Railway (whose network included the route that the Royal Train would take between London and Windsor) was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, being invested with his insignia by H.M. King George VI at Buckingham Palace on 10 June 1937. He died in December 1958. Sold with copied research.