Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Captain A. E. Oxley, Royal Army Ordnance Corps

1914-15 Star (10336 Pte. A. E. Oxley, Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. A. E. Oxley); Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Capt. A. E. Oxley, R.A.O.C.), generally good very fine and a most unusual span of active service (6) £400-500

Alfred Edward Oxley first entered the Balkans theatre of war as a Lance-Corporal in the Gloucestershire Regiment in June 1915, seeing service in Gallipoli until the end of September 1915 and then in France until the end of October 1916. He was commissioned in the Bedfordshire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant in July 1917 and served again in France from September to 7 November 1917. He attended the Royal Air Force School of Instruction from February to June 1918, was then attached to 3rd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment at Felixtowe until February 1919 and was demobilised on 22 June 1919. Oxley served with the Royal Australian Air Force from 25 June 1922 to 27 March 1930. Granted an Emergency Commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in December 1940. He left the U.K. for Singapore in May 1946, returning in April 1948 and finally relinquished his commission in November 1953, when he was granted the honorary rank of Captain. Sold with Officer’s Record of Service (Army Book 439) and Military Identity Card with photograph.