Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal W. Woodward, Oxford Light Infantry, later Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (5386 Pte. W. Woodward. 1/Oxfd. L.I.); 1914-15 Star (M1-08514 L. Cpl. W. Woodward. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M1-08514 Cpl. W. Woodward. A.S.C.) very fine (4) £100-£120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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Walter Woodward was born in the Parish of Summertown, Oxfordshire, in 1880, and enlisted into the Oxford Light Infantry in Oxford on 28 January 1897. He served in South Africa in 1899 and 1900, and was discharged ‘medically unfit’ at Fermoy on 10 July 1901. He enlisted into the Army Service Corps as a Motor Car and Lorry driver on 28 October 1914, and was transferred to the Army Reserve 11 June 1919.

Sold with original Parchment Certificates of Character and Discharge from the Oxford Light Infantry, French Driving Licence with photograph issued 1 May 1909, and various demobilisation documents from 1919.