WW1 1914/15 Star Trio to Cox RMLI Died 1916.

1914 /15 star, British war and victory medal all correctly named to PLY-11732 Private Andrew Thomas Cox of the Plymouth Battalion Royal Marine Light Infantry.
Andrew Cox was born on 16th April 1883 in North Hingham Norwich, Norfolk. He Joined the Royal marines on 14th August 1902. He served with the Plymouth division from 1903 and served on various ships and depots including HMS Suffolk under David Beatty, Flora and Terrible to name just a few. Through his career he was noted as of very good character earning three good conduct badges and he was recommended for promotion.
When the first world war broke out, he was serving on board HMS Roxburgh, a Royal Navy Devonshire-class armoured cruiser. She was assigned to the Grand Fleet and spent much of its time patrolling the northern exits from the North Sea and the Norwegian coast. Andrew was on board when she captured a German merchantman on 6th August 1914 and when she was torpedoed by a German submarine U-38.
In June1915, he served with the Plymouth division embarking for Gallipoli on the 26th later coming under the 63rd Royal Naval Division, aiding the Australian and New Zealand forces. It looks like he was evacuated from Gallipoli on the 17th December 1915 to Alexandria and sadly died on 16th February 1916. He is now remembered with honour at the Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, which includes 92 men of the Royal Navy and Royal Navy Division.
The RN Casualty list has him dying of Syphilis Cirrhosis of the Liver at 1.40am in the 17th General Hospital Alexandria.
His medals are in excellent original condition and come unmounted.

Code: 31840