Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. Brooks, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
1914-15 Star (16785 Pte. J. Brooks. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (16785 Pte. J. Brooks. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (17347 Pte. L. Sears. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine

Victory Medal 1914-19 (2. Lieut. C. B. Todd.) good very fine (5) £70-90

Joseph Brooks was employed as a Porter at Waterloo Station by the London & South Western Railway Company. He attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Battersea in December 1914. He served during the Great War with the Regiment in the French theatre of war from 21 September 1915.

Leonard Sears was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at the town of his birth, in January 1915. He served during the Great War with the 6th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, in the French theatre of war from 2 September 1915 (entitled to 1914-15 trio). He was wounded, 18 June 1916, and discharged in April 1919.

Charles Bernard Todd was born in Hull, in 1889. He was educated at Hull Grammar School, and Hull Technical College. He was a Civil Engineer by trade, and was employed by the Public Work Department of British East Africa, June 1913 - January 1916. During the latter period he had served for 9 months with the Mombassa Defence Force. He attested as a Gunner for the Royal Garrison Artillery at Hull in February 1916. Todd was commissioned Second Lieutenant in August 1916. He was killed in action whilst serving with the 184th Siege Battery, R.G.A at Ypres. The Battery War Diary gives, ‘Ypres. 7.6.17. On 7th of June an attack on Wyschaete-Messines front took place commencing at 3.10am. The battery took part by engaging for the period of four hours an enemy battery.... 11.6.17. 1145pm. On 11th 2Lt. C. B. Todd was killed.’

Second Lieutenant Todd is buried at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium.