Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Private W. A. Kinchen, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Military Medal, G.V.R. (17053 Pte., 6/O. & B.L.I.); 1914-15 Star (35827 Pte., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (17053 Pte., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine (4) £400-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 43rd/52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

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M.M. London Gazette 27 October 1916.

William Albert Kinchen was born in 1895. Attesting for service in the Oxf. & Bucks. L.I. at Oxford on 29 December 1914, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 20 July 1915, serving with the 6th Battalion. Serving with the battalion he was awarded the M.M. for bravery and was wounded. Posted to the 9th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in April 1918, he was discharged from the regiment as a consequence of re-enlisting into the Oxf. & Bucks. L.I. in January 1919. He served in France, 20 July 1915-19 October 1917 and 30 March 1918-14 February 1919. Kinchen was discharged from the Oxf. & Bucks. L.I. on 31 March 1922. Sold with the recipient’s Certificate of Discharge, 1919; Character Certificate, 1922; newspaper cutting with photograph; Field Service Postcard; riband bar; cap badge; metal wound stripe, and copied research including m.i.c.