Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Private P. R. Green, Royal Munster Fusiliers, late Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, killed in action 4 October 1918
1914-15 Star (16969. Pte. P. Green. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (16969. Pte. P. R. Green. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) extremely fine

Pair: Private G. Green, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (4035. Pte. G. Green. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) extremely fine (5) £100-140

Philip Richmond Green was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, the son of Philip and Ella Green, and enlisted in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford. He served during the Great War in the Balkan theatre of War from 16 October 1915, before transferring to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 4 October 1918 during an attack on Le Catelet, when the battalion came under very heavy enemy trench mortar and machine gun fire, and is buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gouy, France.

George Green was born in High Wycombe and enlisted in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 10 July 1915. He served during the Great War with the 1/1st (Buckinghamshire) Battalion, and was wounded by a gun shot wound to the abdomen on the Western Front on 19 August 1917, on which date the battalion was in the line just north-east of St. Julien. He was discharged on account of wounds, 26 January 1919.