Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance-Corporal F. Baxendale, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, later Acting Captain, Royal Garrison Artillery

1914-15 Star (2862 L. Cpl. F. Baxendale, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. F. Baxendale) mounted as worn, very fine (3) £60-£80

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

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Frank Baxendale was born in 1893 and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery (Special Reserve) on 4 May 1917, and was promoted Acting Captain when serving as Second in Command of 85 Siege Battery. He was severely injured in a motor cycle accident while on duty at Esquelbec on 25 April 1918, after a motorcycle collided with a lorry, resulting in the amputation of a leg above the knee. Repatriated to the U.K., he was placed on the retired list as a consequence of his wounds, with the honorary rank of Captain, on 24 September 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge, no. 518788. He died in Watford, Hertfordshire, on 14 September 1968.

Sold with copied research.