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Family group: A Second World War Civil M.B.E. group of three awarded to R. A. Cox, Esq., Department of Justice, Southern Rhodesia, late Inns of Court O.T.C. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; British War Medal 1914-20 (14003. Pte. R. A. Cox. I. of C. O.T.C.); Coronation 1937, mounted for display Four: Flight Sergeant (Pilot) C. A. Cox, No. 166 Squadron, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45 (778769 W/O. C. A. Cox, 166 Sqdn.) these two officially engraved Rhodesian issues, extremely fine (7) £300-£360 Family group: A Second World War Civil M.B.E. group of three awarded to R. A. Cox, Esq., Department of Justice, Southern Rhodesia, late Inns of Court O.T.C. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; British War Medal 1914-20 (14003. Pte. R. A. Cox. I. of C. O.T.C.); Coronation 1937, mounted for display Four: Flight Sergeant (Pilot) C. A. Cox, No. 166 Squadron, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45 (778769 W/O. C. A. Cox, 166 Sqdn.) these two officially engraved Rhodesian issues, extremely fine (7) £300-£360 M.B.E. London Gazette 2 June 1943: ‘Richard Allen Cox Esq., employed in the Department of Justice, Southern Rhodesia.’ Richard Allen Cox was studying law in London when he enrolled into the Inns of Court Officer’s Training Corps close to the end of the war. His medal index conforms entitlement to the British War Medal only as a Private although he was later on the General List as a Second Lieutenant. Presumably he completed his legal studies before returning to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, where he worked as a judge or magistrate in the Rhodesian Department of Justice. Clive Arthur Cox son of Richard Allen Cox and Florence Annie Hickey Cox, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, was born on 11 September 1917, and entered Gaul House, Plumtree School, in January 1937. After passing the Cambridge School Certificate examination in December 1940, he left Plumtree and joined the Native Department for a short while before attesting in the Royal Air Force and becoming a Flight Sergeant (Pilot) in No. 166 Squadron. He was killed in action whilst flying a Lancaster bomber on 3 December 1943, aged 21. He is buried in Hanover War Cemetery. A second son, Lieutenant Richard Allen Cox, 11 Air Formation Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, won what is believed to be the only George Medal awarded to a Rhodesian, for saving the lives of two crew members from a crashed aircraft in Belgium on 10 January 1945.