Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private E. L. F. Gibbs, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (29405 Pte E. L. F. Gibbs. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence Medal, with named card box of issue, addressed to Mr. E. L. Gibbs, Harwyn, Chapel St., Stourbridge, very fine

Five: Corporal L. W. Groves, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with Second Award Bar (53826 Cpl. L. W. Groves. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) very fine (8) £80-£120

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 L. F. Gibbs was born on 11 November 1896, and served with the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the Great War, and later with 1st/4th Battalion. In the 1939 Register he is shown as a Relief Signalman for the Great Western Railway, residing at 22 Pearson Street, Stourbridge.