Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914-15 Star (4) (18073 Pte. E. Buller. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.; 10710 Pte. S. T. Perkins. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.; 18741 Pte. H. A. Robinson. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.; 1396 Pte. E. Schen. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.) very fine and better (4) £80-£100

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

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Edward Buller was born at Banbury, Oxfordshire, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford. He served with 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and died on 12 September 1915. He is buried in Royal Irish Rifles Graveyard, Laventie, France.

Samuel Thomas Perkins was born at Erdington, Warwickshire in 1897 and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 26 August 1914. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 May 1915, and was discharged on 13 June 1919. He subsequently enlisted into the Royal Air Force on 26 August 1919.

Harry Arthur Robinson, a native of Bloxham, near Banbury, attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford on 31 May 1915. He served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and suffered shell shock on 28 June 1916. He was discharged medically unfit on 10 November 1916, being classified as totally incapacitated, and was awarded Silver War Badge no. 10566.