Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private F. Dawes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (23216 Pte. F. Dawes. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) nearly extremely fine

Pair: Private R. Lomman, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 12 March 1917
British War and Victory Medals (4100 Pte. R. Lomman. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) extremely fine

Pair: Private H. S. Roberts, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action at the Battle of Albert in August 1918
British War and Victory Medals (203198 Pte. H. S. Roberts. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) extremely fine (6) £100-£140

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 Dawes originally attested for the Somerset Light Infantry but was posted to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War. He was wounded several times and suffered from bronchitis and trench fever, and later transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps. He died at Old Headington, Oxford, in 1927.

Sold with a bronze Church of England Men’s Society Cross in pendant form.

Reginald Lomman attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 12 March 1917 and is buried at Hem Farm Military Cemetery, Hem-Monacu, France.

Sold with the named Record Office enclosure and outer OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. E. A. Lomman, at 32 Minster Rd., Southfield Rd., Oxford’.

Herbert Sidney Roberts was born at Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, and attested there for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action at the Battle of Albert on 23 August 1918. He is buried at Gomiecourt South Cemetery, France.