Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Company Quartermaster Sergeant C. A. Hawker, Oxford Light Infantry, later Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps (5797 Pte C. Hawker. Oxford: Lt. Infy:); 1914-15 Star (9291 C.Q.M. Sjt. G. A. Hawker. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (9291 A. C. Sjt. C. A. Hawker. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) heavy edge bruising to QSA, nearly very fine (4) £120-£160

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

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Charles Hawker attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry in 1888 and served as Company Quartermaster Sergeant with the 7th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 September 1915. He was discharged on 3 March 1919.