Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private D. C. Smith, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was wounded at Ypres in 1914, and died at home on 16 April 1916

1914 Star, with clasp (7672 Pte. D. C. Smith. 2/Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (7672 Pte. D. C. Smith. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) sewing holes in clasp have been enlarged by drilling, otherwise very fine (3) £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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David Charles Smith was born at Reading, Berkshire, and attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry at Caversham on 2 September 1904. He served with the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914, and received a bullet wound to the right arm at Ypres in 1914. He subsequently developed chest problems and developed Tuberculosis. His medal index card is annotated that he had been discharged no longer physically fit but was ‘since dead’. His service papers are noted that he had died on 16 April 1916.