A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain G. D. Boissier, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut: G. D. Boissier. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. G. D. Boissier.) mounted court-style for wear, light contact marks, lacquered, nearly very fine (4) £1,000-£1,400

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918.

Geoffrey Dumaresq Boissier was embodied as a Private in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Territorial Force) on 31 August 1914 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion on 29 December 1914, serving with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 July 1915. Wounded on 24 March 1916, he was promoted to Temporary Lieutenant on 12 May 1916, and held the rank of Temporary Captain from May 1916 to March 1918 whilst serving in Salonika. He was released on 2 May 1919, retaining the rank of Captain. Post-war he lived at ‘Shrublands’, Banbury, Oxfordshire.

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