Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private A. A. Sturgeon, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who died of wounds received at the Battle of the Aisne on 28 September 1914

1914 Star, with copy clasp (9660 Pte. A. Sturgeon. 2/ Oxf: & Bucks: L. I.); British War and Victory Medals (9660 Pte. A. A. Sturgeon. Oxf. & Bucks. L. I.) nearly extremely fine (3) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Recipients of the 1914 Star.

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Albert Alfred Sturgeon was born in Rochester, Kent and enlisted in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Chatham, Kent on 9 February 1912. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914 and was admitted to No. 3 Clearing Hospital Aid Post on 23 September 1914, during the Battle of the Aisne, with a gun-shot wound to his left arm. He died of his wounds at Claridges Hotel, Paris, on 28 September 1914 and is buried at the City of Paris Cemetery, Pantin, France.