Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain E. J. C. Allday, 1st/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. C. J. Allday.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Edward C. J. Allday) very fine (3) £80-£100

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

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Edward Cyril James Allday was born in 1896 at Keresley, Warwickshire, and having attended the Inns of Court O.T.C. was commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 3 May 1915. He served in the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from April 1916, and was promoted Temporary Lieutenant on 1 January 1917, and Temporary Captain on 20 July 1917. He served in ‘A’ Company, 6th Battalion at the Battle of Cambrai and was wounded on 20 November 1917. He later served in Italy with the 1st/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion. He is listed in the University of London O.T.C. Roll of War Service which states that he served in France: April 1916 - November 1917, twice wounded; invalided; and in Italy, September 1918 to February 1919. He Is listed in the Army List for October 1945 as Lieutenant, O.B.L.I., Territorial Army Reserve of Officers. He died at Cockermouth, Cumbria, in 1986.

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