Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Staff Sergeant G. H. Giles, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, later Indian Army Barrack Department

1914-15 Star (8075 L. Sjt. G. H. Giles, Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (8075 Cpl. G. H. Giles. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Jubilee 1935; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (S-Sgt. G. H. Giles. Bk. Deptt.) contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £140-£180

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

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George Henry Giles attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford in 1905 and served with 1st/1st (Buckinghamshire) Battalion during the Great War in the Asiatic theatre of War from 5 December 1914. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal for service in the Barrack Department, per Indian Army Order 452 of 31 May 1924, and appears on the 1935 Jubilee Medal Roll (India) as a Sub-Divisional Officer, Bombay.