Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant S. Badby, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, later Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action at the battle of Ctesiphon on 22 November 1915

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (6011. Pte: S. Badby. 1/Oxfd: L.I.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6011 Pte. S. Badby. Oxford: L.I.); 1914-15 Star (6011 Sjt. S. Badby. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (6011 Sjt. S. Badby. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) light contact marks to the Boer War pair, otherwise good very fine (5) £300-£400

Samuel Badby attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry and served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War. At the time of the 1911 Delhi Durbar he is listed as a Corporal in ‘C’ Company, stationed at Malappuram in India, and he saw further service as a Sergeant during the Great War in Mesopotamia from 5 December 1914, the date on which the Battalion arrived from India. He was killed in action at the battle of Ctesiphon on 22 November 1915; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.