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Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum

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№ 47

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21 July 2021

Hammer Price:
£200

Pair: Private J. W. Perry, 2nd/1st (Buckinghamshire) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 19 July 1916

British War and Victory Medals (5331 J. W. Perry. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Memorial Plaque (John William Perry) nearly extremely fine (3) £120-£160

John William Perry, a native of Kirkdale, Liverpool, attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 2nd/1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1916. He was killed in action on 19 July 1916, aged 19; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.