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№ 595

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20 April 2022

Hammer Price:
£55

British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. A. H. Brucker.); together with a heavy bronze National Rifle Association prize medallion, unnnamed; and a Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs ‘Bell Medal’ in bronze (Captain A. H. Brucker 23-11-12) very fine (3) £50-£70

Albert Henry Brucker was born at Headington, Oxford, in July 1888, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Posted to the 4th Battalion, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 14 September 1914, and was appointed Temporary Captain on 9 December 1914. He served with the 2nd/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was wounded by gun shot to the left elbow in September 1917. He relinquished his commission on 18 January 1919. In civilian life he was a schoolmaster at the Dragon Preparatory School, Oxford. He died in Oxford on 31 December 1929.