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Pair: Private S. T. White, 1st/1st (Buckinghamshire) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 23 August 1916
British War and Victory Medals (4884 Pte. S. T. White. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Memorial Plaque (Sidney Thomas White), the reverse of the plaque privately engraved ‘Brother of W. G. White, Pte. Sidney Thomas White, 1/1st Bucks. K-I-A 23rd August 1916. Born Truro Cornwall’, good very fine

Memorial Plaque (William Gordon White) the reverse of the plaque privately engraved ‘Brother of S. T. White. 6145 Pte. William Gordon White. 1/4th Oxford & Bucks. L.I. D-O-W 20th December 1916. Born Lydford Devon’, good very fine (4) £140-£180

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

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Sidney Thomas White was born in Truro, Cornwall, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Falmouth, Cornwall. He served with the 1st/1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1916, and was killed in action on the Somme on 23 August 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

William George White, brother of the above, was born in Lydford, Devon, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Falmouth, Cornwall. He served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and died of wounds on 20 December 1916. He is buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France.