Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private F. F. Cross, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who died of pneumonia in Salonika in December 1918
1914-15 Star (14736 Pte. F. F. Cross. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (14736 Pte. F. F. Cross. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) very fine

Three: Private H. Scarsbrook, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action in Salonika on 25 April 1917
1914-15 Star (16046 Pte. H. Scarsbrook, Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (16406 Pte. H. Scarsbrook. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.), with the lids of two original named boxes of issue, nearly extremely fine (6) £80-£100

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

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Frederick Faulkner Cross attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 September 1915. He died of pneumonia in Salonika on 7 December 1918, whilst serving with the 8th Battalion, and is buried in Sofia War Cemetery, Bulgaria.

Herbert Scarsbrook was born at Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire, in 1890 and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 September 1915, and then in Salonika, and was killed in action in Salonika on 25 April 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Doiran Memorial, Greece.

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