Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private O. J. Burton, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (25783 Pte. O. J. Burton. R. War. R.); together with three bronze Oxfordshire Education Committee School Attendance Medals for 1904-5, 1905-6 and 1906-7 all with engraved naming to O. Burton, very fine and better

Pair: Private F. A. Willey, West Yorkshire Regiment, who was discharged due to wounds in 1917
British War and Victory Medals (15229 Pte. F. A. Willey. W. York R.) good very fine

Pair: Private W. T. Richards, Hampshire Regiment, later Worcestershire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 18 June 1918
British War and Victory Medals (357109 Pte. W. T. Richards. Hamps. R.) very fine

Pair: Private C. Nason, Northamptonshire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (36712 Pte. C. Nason. North’n. R.) good very fine

Pair: Private R. W. Smith Royal West Kent Regiment, later Royal Army Medical Corps
British War and Victory Medals (39203. Pte. R. W. Smith. R.W. Kent R.) very fine

Memorial Plaque (Leslie Smith); together with a Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘47945’, very fine (11) £120-£160

Oswald John Burton attested for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and served with both the 10th and 2nd/7th Battalions during the Great War.

Sold with an unusual white metal, possibly nickel silver, hand tooled and engraved identity bracelet (Pte. O. J. Burton 25783 2/7 R.W.R.); and a Royal Warwickshire Regiment cap badge and British Legion lapel badge.

William Thomas Richards, a native of Witney, Oxfordshire, attested for the Hampshire Regiment at at Oxford and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. Subsequently transferred to 10th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, he was killed in action between 25 May 1918 and 18 June 1918, and was officially recorded as killed in action on the latter date. He is buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France.

Several Men with the name Leslie Smith appear on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll of Honour.

Silver War Badge no. 147378 was awarded to 8108 Private Albert Widdison, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, who was discharged due to sickness on 15 January 1915.