Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 236

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25 June 2014

Hammer Price:
£250

Four: Private J. Oldfield, Royal Lancaster Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6278 Pte., R. Lanc. Regt. M.I.); 1914 Star, with clasp (6278 Pte., R. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (6278 Pte., R. Lanc. R.) good very fine (4) £220-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Royal Lancaster Regiment.

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Joseph Oldfield enlisted into King’s Own c.January 1900 and went to ‘A’ Company 1st Battalion at Aldershot. Later, trained as a mounted infantryman, he was with two King’s Own Mounted Infantry sections which on arrival in South Africa in June 1901 were posted to No. 2 Company, 23rd Battalion, Mounted Infantry at Vereeniging, Transvaal. On disbandment of the Mounted Infantry at the end of the war, Oldfield joined the 2nd Battalion Royal Lancaster Regiment at Pietermaritzburg, returning to England with it in April 1903. He later joined the 1st Battalion and served in Malta, India and Burma. With the 1st Battalion he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 23 August 1914 and served in the retreat from Mons. Later on in the war he transferred to the Devonshire Regiment and thence to the Royal Engineers. With copied research.