Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Flight Lieutenant G. Oliver, Royal Air Force, late Warrant Officer Class 2, Hampshire Regiment

Africa General Service 1902-56, 2 clasps, Somaliland 1902-04, Jidballi (4925 L. Corpl., 1st Hamp. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (4925 C.Q.M. Sjt., Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals (4925 W.O. Cl.II, Hamps. R.) these three with slightly later style naming; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4925 C.S. Mjr., Hants. R.) mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better (5) £220-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Hampshire Regiment.

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Company Quartermaster Sergeant George Oliver, Hampshire Regiment, entered the Balkan theatre of war on 25 April 1915. He is listed as having been wounded in action (in the groin) on 9 May 1915. He was commissioned on 31 July 1917 and served as a Flight Lieutenant in the R.A.F. Sold with copied roll extract, m.i.c. and other research.