Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (2) (Arthur William Moxham; Victor Ellis Fane) traces of mount to reverse of second, very fine (2) £80-120

Arthur William Moxham was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, in 1877 and enlisted there in the Imperial Yeomanry on 3 January 1900. He served with the 38th (Buckinghamshire) Company, 10th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 10 February 1900 until 2 January 1901 (entitled to Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Transvaal), before being discharged on 4 February 1901 after 1 year and 33 days’ service. He subsequently served during the Great War with King Edward’s Hussars in France from 5 May 1915, before transferring to the Lancashire Fusiliers. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 9 October 1917, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

Victor Ellis Fane was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and enlisted in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford. He served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion in France from 12 September 1914, before subsequently transferring to the 63rd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. He was killed in action on the Western Front, 22 May 1918, and is buried in Varennes Military Cemetery, France.