Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain G. D. Boissier, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) mounted court style for wear, some contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £850-950

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918.

Geoffrey Dumaresq Boissier was embodied as a Private in the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (T.F.) on 31 August 1914. Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion on 29 December 1914, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 23 July 1915. Wounded on 24 March 1916. Promoted to Temporary Lieutenant on 12 May 1916, he held the rank of Temporary Captain, May 1916-March 1918. Attained the rank of Temporary Captain on 3 May 1918. Released on 2 May 1919, retaining the rank of Captain. Served in France and Salonika. Post-war lived at ‘Shrublands’, Banbury, Oxfordshire. With copied m.i.c. and other research.