Lot Archive

Lot

№ 40

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4 December 2002

Hammer Price:
£150

Three: Private E. Jackson, The Rifle Blrigade, late Oxfordshire Light Infantry

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4895 Pte., 2d Bn. Oxf. Lt. Infy.); British War and Victory Medals (794 Pte., Rif. Bde.) number officially corrected on the British War Medal, very fine (3) £100-120

Ernest Jackson was born at Farringdon, Berkshire, and enlisted into the Oxfordshire Light Infantry on 10 November 1894, aged 18 years 10 months. He was discharged at Netley on 22 May 1906, described as medically unfit. Sold with copy discharge papers.