Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private T. W. Berry, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action at the Battle of Ctesiphon in November 1915

British War and Victory Medals (9392 Pte. T. W. Berry. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, with bronze palm on riband, very fine (3) £70-£90

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

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Thomas William Berry was born at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Witney. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War in the Asiatic Theatre from 5 December 1914, and was killed in action at the battle of Ctesiphon in Mesopotamia on 22 November 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

Belgian Croix de Guerre unconfirmed.