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15 September 2021

Hammer Price:
£95

The British War Medal awarded to Private J. T. Richards, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 28 April 1917

British War Medal 1914-20 (20305 Pte. J. T. Richards. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Memorial Plaque (John Thomas Williams) very fine (2) £80-£120

John Thomas Williams was born at Winson Green, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Birmingham. He served as a Bugler with the 2nd/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 28 April 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.