Four: Private T. Webster, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who later became an in-pensioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea

1914-15 Star (6709 Pte. T. Webster. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (6709 Pte. T. Webster. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5373045 Pte. T. Webster. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) minor edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine (4) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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Thomas Webster was born in 1884 and attested for the Oxford Light Infantry in 1901, at Oxford. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War in Mesopotamia in the Asiatic Theatre from 5 December 1914, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1925, being discharged that same year. He was subsequently employed by Morris Motors at Cowley, Oxford. In 1963 he was recorded as an in-patient of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, aged 79.