Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private D. A. Murray, 1/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front, 17 August 1917

British War and Victory Medals (7572 Pte. D. A. Murray. Oxf. Bucks. L.I.); Memorial Plaque (Donald Andrew Murray) good very fine (3) £80-£100

Donald Alexander Murray was born in Manchester, and previously served with the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars. He served with the 1/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and was killed in action whilst serving with them on the Western Front, 17 August 1917. Private Murray is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

Sold with a Post Card photograph of three men in uniform at A.S.C. Sergeant’s Mess, addressed to recipient at ‘66 Divinity Road, Oxford’, and dated 7 September 1913.