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15 September 2021

Hammer Price:
£110

Pair: Private C. Downing, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (46142 Pte. C. Downing. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.)
good very fine

Pair:
Private J. Hooper, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (285049 Pte. J. Hooper. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine

Pair:
Private W. H. Kenning, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (12341 Pte. W. H. Kenning. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) number, rank, and name erased on VM, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine

Pair
: Private W. E. Vallis, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (28534 Pte. W. E. Vallis. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) very fine (8) £100-£140

Charles Downing attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He subsequently served in both the Gloucestershire Regiment and the Royal Engineers, and was demobilised on 8 November 1919.

William H. Kenning attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 November 1914.

William Ewart Vallis was born in 1898, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford on 29 January 1917. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 2 June 1917, and subsequently transferred to the Labour Corps, and then the Royal Engineers. He was demobilised in November 1919.