A Collection of Medals to the 43rd/52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Viceroy’s Medal for Rifle Shooting, obv. Hardinge coat-of-arms, rev. Victory standing right with wreaths, holding one aloft, with inscription (rank, name and unit engraved), ‘Presented by Lord Hardinge Viceroy of India to [erasure] Lce. Sgt. H. Grace, Oxford & Bucks Lt Infty for Rifle Shooting’, 51mm., gold, 60.85g., pierced with ring suspension, in an unrelated case, edge bruising, contact marks, very fine £450-550

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 43rd/52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

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6830 Serjeant H. Grace, 1st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, was awarded the D.C.M. in the Great War.

D.C.M. London Gazette 22 January 1916. ‘For conspicuous gallantry at Kut-al-Amara (Mesopotamia) on 28th September 1915. He sent messages to the artillery by heliograph under heavy fire, although he had to stand in full view of the enemy’s redoubts in order to do so’.

Henry Grace was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire and enlisted at High Wycombe. Serving as a Serjeant with the 1st Battalion Oxf. & Bucks. L.I., he died on 21 April 1916, aged 33 years. He was buried in the Kut War Cemetery. Sold with copied research.