Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private E. Search, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, later Hampshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (OX-11723 Pte. E. Search. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (11723 Pte. E. Search. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence Medal, generally very fine (4) £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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Ernest Search attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 31 August 1915 and served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 July 1915. Following the cessation of hostilities he transferred to the Hampshire Regiment, and was transferred to the Army Reserve on 26 March 1919.

Sold with the recipient’s original brown Soldiers Book, issued on his joining the Hampshire Regiment in 1919; original Army Form Z.21 Certificate of Transfer to Reserve on Demobilisation, which notes entitlement to one wound stripe and one blue chevron; original Army Form W.5065; Demobilisation Account; and a pressed white metal Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry cap badge with slider, two brass O.B.L.I. collar badges, two brass O.B.L.I. shoulder titles, and a bi-metal Hampshire Regiment cap badge with red felt backing.