Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum

Pair: Private J. R. Woodward, 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action in the retreat to Dunkirk on 21 May 1940

1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, both contemporarily engraved ‘5383830 Pte. J. R. Woodward 1/Oxf & Bucks LI’; together with the named Army Council enclosure, nearly extremely fine (2) £60-£80

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

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John Richard Woodward, a native of Oxford, attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 1st Battalion as part of the British Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action aged 21 during the defence of the Escaut Canal Lesdain Hollain in the retreat to Dunkirk on 21 May 1940, and is buried at Holain Civil Cemetery, Belgium.