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Corps of Military Police Record

Surname:Roberts
Initials:J
Rank:Sergeant
Army Number:..367
Notes:MMP. Formerly 17 Lancers, transferred 125/2/1894. Reported as missing at Sannas Post 31/3/1900 and released at the end of the Boer War.
Shown on MMP roll as alias 367 Cooke (see No. 367 Sgt J Roberts MMP for more details), who was awarded the KSA clasps 1901 and 1902.
James Cook.

Has the same No. as L/Cpl Bennett MFP.

Extract from the Morning Post 10 April 1900.
CASUALTY LISTS. We have received the following official despatches from he War Office and the Admiralty. LOSSES AT SANNA'S POST. From the General of Communications to the Secretary of State for War. Capetown, April 8. Military Mounted Police, 367 Corp. J Roberts, Missing.
Decoration Record:
Decoration: Queen's South Africa Medal (London Gazette: QSA Medal Roll WO 100/234 Page: 189 July 5, 1901)
Citation: Clasps: Paardeburg, Dreifontein, Relief of Kimberley, Transvaal.
Decoration: King's South Africa Medal (London Gazette: KSA Medal Roll WO 100/355 Page: 297 Dec. 23, 1902)
Citation: Clasps: South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902. Shown on medal roll as alias Cooke 367. Rank Cpl.
Prisoner of War Record:
Imprisonment: SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH AFRICA πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦