Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance-Corporal L. C. Smith, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action at Festubert on 16 May 1915

1914 Star (11145 L.Cpl. L. C. Smith. 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (11145 Pte. L. C. Smith. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) very fine (3) £140-£180

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

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Leopold Coleman Smith was born at Wednesbury, Staffordshire, and was educated at Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire. He attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Birmingham and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 9 November 1914. He was initially recorded as wounded and missing at Festubert on 16 May 1915, and was later officially presumed killed in action on this date. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France.