Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant J. S. Fenwick, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. J. S. Fenwick. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. S. Fenwick.) all slightly later issues, with half-hearted attempt to obliterate surname on the BWM, therefore nearly very fine (3) £50-£70

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 Stanhope Fenwick was born at Launceston, Cornwall on 27 April 1893, the son of Revd. George Bargate Fenwick, and was educated at Radley College and Caius College, Cambridge. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 22 August 1914, he served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from May 1915, and was promoted Lieutenant on 30 July 1916. Wounded by gunshot to the head at Railway Wood, Ypres, on 1 August 1916, he was evacuated to England. He rejoined the 2nd Battalion on 26 June 1917, before being appointed to the Indian Army, on probation, on 15 March 1918. Rejoining the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1920, he served with the 1st Battalion in Ireland before he resigned his commission in 1921. He appears in the January 1945 Army List as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Army Service Corps (Regular Army Emergency Commission), African Colonial Forces Section, with seniority from 7 October 1939. He died at Oxford on 11 September 1974.