Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant W. H. Rawlings, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, later Company Sergeant Major, Worcestershire Regiment

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (3100 Pte. W. H. Rawling [sic] 2d Bn. Oxf: L. Infy.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (3100 Sjt: W. H. Rawlings, Oxford Lt Inft) rank officially corrected; 1914-15 Star (9229 Sjt. W. H. Rawlings. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (9229 Sjt. W. H. Rawlings. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) with The Soldier’s Total Abstinence Association 1 Year Medal, silver, and two Central Boys School Oxford Swimming Prize Medals in bronze, named to ‘R. Rawlings’, both dated 1930 and in Thomas Fatorini Ltd boxes, toned, generally good very fine (lot) £380-£420

William H. Rawlings served with the Oxford Light Infantry in Burma, and during the Second Boer War. He served during the Great War with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in the French theatre of war from 21 September 1915. He subsequently transferred as a Company Sergeant Major to the 15th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. He died 13 March 1919, and is buried in the Oxford (Botley) Cemetery.