Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private F. Gray, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, killed in action 22 August 1917
1914-15 Star (8638 Pte. F. Gray. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (8638 Pte. F. Gray. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine

Pair: Corporal O. E. Harvey, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, killed in action at the Battle of the Somme, 21 July 1916
1914-15 Star (1523 L.Cpl. O. E. Harvey. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (1523 Cpl. O. E. Harvey. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine (5) £120-160

Frank Gray was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and enlisted there for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with the 2nd Battalion in France from 26 May 1915, before transferring to the 5th Battalion, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 22 August 1917, on which date the battalion suffered 10 men killed and 72 wounded from an enemy attack on their position in the Jargon switch trench on the Menin Road. Gray is buried in Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Belgium.

Owen Edward Harvey was born in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, on 7 October 1894 and enlisted at High Wycombe for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with the 1/1st (Buckinghamshire) Battalion during the Great War in France from 30 March 1915, and was promoted to Corporal. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 21 July 1916, on which date the Battalion was in action south-west of Pozieres. Ordered to attack, the battalion could not push home owing to the large number of enemy machine guns, and although one party of a corporal and 6 men succeeded in entering the German line on the extreme right of the attack, casualties were heavy, with 4 officers and 7 other ranks killed, 3 officers and 97 other ranks wounded, and 1 officer and 42 other ranks missing. Harvey was one of those killed, and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.