Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private S. H. Grey, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, late Royal Horse Artillery, who was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in 1919

1914-15 Star (65860 Dvr. S. H. Grey. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (65860 Dvr. S. H. Grey. R.A.); Defence Medal; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (33483 Pte. S. H. Grey. 2/Oxf. & Bucks: L.I.) light polishing, otherwise very fine (5) £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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M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Septimus Henry Grey was born on 4 July 1892 and having attested for the Royal Horse Artillery served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 December 1914. He subsequently transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in the 1919 ‘Peace Gazette’. He was discharged to the Reserve on 12 April 1919.

Sold together with a finely executed brown crayon portrait drawing of the recipient in O.B.L.I. uniform.