Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (8) (241063 Pte. T. W. Allen. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 14120 Pte. J. Edwards. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 27587 Pte. F. H. Martin. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 28954 Pte. A. Painter. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 49673 Pte. W. E. Phipps. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 20310 Pte. F. J. Rawlings. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 2671 Pte. R. H. Skinner. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 5584 Pte. A. W. Walters. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) generally very fine and better (8) £100-£140

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

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John Edwards was born in Swansea and attested there for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with the 7th and 5th Battalions during the Great War on the Western Front, and died of wounds on 18 April 1915. He is buried at St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.

Francis Harold Martin, a native of Kingsbridge, Devon, was an undergraduate at Exeter University when he attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in November 1915. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War in Salonika, and was invalided with Malaria on 5 December 1918. He transferred to the Army Reserve in April 1919.