Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (Lt. Col. J. C. Low; Capt. H. L. Gauntlett); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (2415 Pte. A. S. Adams. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 2416 Pte. F. J. Adams. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) edge bruising, otherwise very fine (4) £100-£140

John Chabot Low was born in Asuncion, Mexico, on 6 September 1854 and appears on the 1891 census as a merchant living in Westbourne Terrace, London. Upon the resignation of his commission as a captain with the 6th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers on 17 June 1904, he was appointed with the honorary rank of major, in which description he appears in the 1911 census, living in Lower Berkeley Street, London. Appointed lieutenant colonel with the 7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment on 2 March 1915, he resigned his commission to be granted the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel on 29 September 1915, yet served on Western Front from 16 May 1917, appearing on the Staff Officer’s roll. Awarded a Silver War Badge, he died in Hove, Sussex, aged 87 on 21 August 1942.

Harry Leon Gauntlett was born in Wandsworth, Surrey, on 10 January 1884. As a medical student, he attested into the Royal Army Medical Corps Volunteers in London, resigning as a sergeant in November 1907. He was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps Territorial Force on 1 March 1913, attached to the 1/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was mobilised on 5 August 14, and transferred as the medical officer to the 1/6th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, with whom he served on the Western Front from 30 May 1915. He was wounded by gun shot to the head on on 6 November 1915 and evacuated to the U.K. In August 1917 he returned to the Western Front and was further wounded by gun shot through his right ankle and invalided home. He died in Devon, aged 72, on 10 March 1956.

Albert Stanley Adams was born in Oxford and attested, with his brother Frank, (consecutive numbers), into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry for service during the Great War. He served on the Western Front with the 1st/4th Battalion from 29 March 1915, and was killed in action, on the Somme, on 14 August 196. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Frank James Adams was born in Oxford and attested, with his brother Albert, (consecutive numbers), into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry for service during the Great War. He served on the Western Front with the 1st/4th Battalion from 29 March 1915 and was killed in action on 16 August 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

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