Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Second Lieutenant Wilfred Garland, 7th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action at Salonika in May 1917

1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. W. Garland. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (2.Lieut. W. Garland.) extremely fine (3) £200-£260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 28 November 1917 (Salonika).


2nd Lieutenant Wilfred Garland (7th Battalion), killed in action on the 8th/9th May 1917, was educated at Lancing and Keble College, Oxford. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant, 7th Battalion, 24th November 1914; served with it in France; and in the autumn of 1915 accompanied it to Salonika. He was at first reported “missing, believed killed,” and afterwards was reported unofficially “killed” (Regimental Chronicle, 1916-1917, refers).

Garland was last seen helping to bomb back a counter attack in which action ‘he behaved magnificently. This phase of the fighting being very difficult to reconstruct as no officers and very few N.C.O.’s and men survived.’ Sold with copied extracts from various regimental histories.