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15 March 2023

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№ 357

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15 March 2023

Hammer Price:
£240

Five: Warrant Officer Class II A. A. Thompson, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

1914 Star (7671 L.Cpl (A. Cpl.) A. Thompson. 2/Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (7671 A.W.O.Cl.2. A. A. Thompson. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence Medal; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Arthur Alfred Thompson) mounted court-style as worn, contact marks, some edge bruises, nearly very fine and better (5) £100-£140

Arthur Alfred Thompson attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion on the Western Front from 14 August 1914 (entitled to a clasp to his 1914 Star), being later appointed Acting Warrant Officer Class II. Post-War, he worked as a skilled workman in the London Telecommunications Region and was awarded the Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement (London Gazette 15 October 1946).