Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Corporal W. F. V. Parr, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his service with 54 Light Railway Operating Company, Royal Engineers

British War and Victory Medals (26059 Cpl. W. F. V. Parr. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (343125 Sapr. W. F. V. Parr. 54/L.R.O. Coy. R.E.); together with an unofficial 1919 Peace Medal, bronze, bearing the conjoined busts of King George V and Queen Mary to one side, and the winged figure of Victory to the other, better than very fine, the M.S.M. extremely fine (3) £100-£140

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.S.M. London Gazette 14 June 1918.

William Francis Vinnicombe Parr was born at Clyst St. Mary, Devon, in 1890, and attested for the Worcestershire Regiment at Axminster on 14 February 1916. He transferred to the 2nd Garrison Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, before transferring again to the Royal Engineers. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his service with 54th Light Railway Operating Company, Royal Engineers. He later served with 232 Light Railway Forwarding Company, R.E., with a specialist role as stretcher bearer as well as his engineering duties, and was demobilised in September 1919.