Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private S. Wyles, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

1914-15 Star (12768 Pte., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (12768 Pte., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) nearly extremely fine (3) £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Brigadier Brian Parritt, C.B.E..

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Sydney Wyles, 6th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 30 December 1915. Sold with original (damaged) lid to card box of issue; embroidered silk ‘Oxford & Bucks’ postcard; five other postcards, including one of the recipient on a J. A. Prestwick motorcycle, the second a group photograph with the recipient in field uniform and another a group photograph of the recipient in hospital. A note with the lot states that he was severely gassed and that postwar he was a Tram Driver in Nottingham.