Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Bugler T. Williams, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, later Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal, the Driefontein clasp a tailor’s copy, unofficially affixed (6351 Buglr: T. Williams. Oxford: Lt. Inft.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5351 Bglr: T. Williams. Oxford: L.I.) suspension claw re-pinned; 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (5351 Sjt. T. Williams 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (5351 Cpl. T. Williams. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) edge bruising and contact marks, the Boer War pair fine, the Great War awards better (5) £180-£220

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

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Thomas Williams was born in 1877 and attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry in December 1896, serving with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War. The Driefontein clasp is not confirmed on the medal rolls, but is recorded on his service papers. He was promoted to Sergeant in the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 30 August 1913, and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914. He was reduced to Corporal at a Field General Court Martial on 1 September 1916, for drunkenness while on active service, and was wounded in action by gun shot to the right leg on 15 December 1917. He was posted to 104th Company, Labour Corps on 10 July 1918, being renumbered 601757 and was discharged as a Lance Sergeant on termination of his second period of engagement on 12 March 1919.

Sold with a photographic image of the recipient and copied medal roll extracts.