Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Second Lieutenant W. R. Garrett, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, late Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who died of influenza on 6 May 1919

1914-15 Star (1708 Sjt. W. R. Garrett. Oxf. & Bucks.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. W. R. Garrett.); together with an Italian Altipiani Medal 1918, silver, very fine (4) £80-£100

William Robert Garrett, a bank clerk from Brackley, Northamptonshire, was born on 20 June 1891 and attested for the 4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 6 December 1912, serving with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915. Appointed sergeant on 25 June 1916, he was commissioned second lieutenant into the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment on 30 May 1917 and received a shell wound to his left knee at Le Catlet, France, on 3 October 1918. He died at Catterick Military Cemetery on 6 May 1919 of cardiac failure following a severe attack of pneumonia, and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Brackley (St. Peter) Churchyard, Northamptonshire.

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