General Sir Herbert Vaughan Cox, GCB, KCMG, CSI (12 July 1860 – 8 October 1923) was a British officer in the Indian Army.

[4] Cox then briefly served as adjutant of the South India Railway Volunteer Corps before being appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General for Musketry in Burma.

The medal was presented to him in person by the Prince of Wales on 2 July 1902, following a parade in London of Indian troops visiting the United Kingdom for the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.

[19] He then commanded the 4th Australian Division in Egypt and in France from 1916 to 1917, when he became Military Secretary to the India Office, where he remained until his retirement in January 1921.

He was promoted full general in 1920,[22] and appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in the 1921 Birthday Honours following his retirement.