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Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum

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№ 53

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15 September 2021

Hammer Price:
£170

Six: Captain J. J. P. Corbett, Indian Army, late Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (6005945 Cpl. J. J. P. Corbett. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (Lt. J. J. Corbett. I.A.) good very fine (6) £120-£160

John James Peter Corbett was born at West Ham, London, in 1905 and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, serving with the 2nd Battalion in Burma 1930-32. Advanced Company Quartermaster Sergeant, he was appointed to an Emergency Commission in the Indian Army on 6 April 1944, and was retrospectively awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal as a Lieutenant and Honorary Captain, late Indian Army, in the London Gazette of 23 May 1958. He died on 21 July 1976 in London.