Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Second Lieutenant W. G. Harris, Labour Corps, late Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
1914 Star, with copy clasp (7459 Pte. W. G. Harris, 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. W. G. Harris) mounted as worn, contact marks, very fine

Three: Colour Sergeant B. G. Brooker, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
1914-15 Star (7973 Cpl. B. G. Brooker. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (7973 C. Sjt. B. G. Brooker. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) mounted as worn, contact marks, very fine

Three: Warrant Officer Class II E. T. Brown, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
1914-15 Star (9704 C.S. Mjr. E. T. Brown. Oxf. & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (9704 W.O. Cl. 2 E. T. Brown. Oxf. & Bucks: L.I.) nearly extremely fine (9) £160-£200

William George Harris attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the 2nd Battalion from 20 September 1914. After transferring to the Labour Corps, he was appointed Colour Sergeant, and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 1 April 1918. His Great War medals were sent to him at Holton Place, near Wheatley, Oxfordshire.

Benjamin George Brooker attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and appears on the 1911 census as a Lance Corporal. He served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion in the Asiatic theatre from 5 December 1914, (confirmed on the 1914-15 star roll, but his medal index card incorrectly states his date of entry as 5 December 1915). Later appointed Colour Sergeant, he died, aged 83, in Reading, Berkshire, on 18 September 1969.

Edward Thomas Brown attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served during the the Great War on the Western Front from 19 September 1915. He later transferred to the Northamptonshire Regiment and was discharged ‘Class Z’ on 14 April 1919.