Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Warrant Officer Class II T. Higgins, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

1914 Star, with later slide clasp (7825 Pte. T. Higgins. 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (7825 W.O. Cl.2. T. Higgins.Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence Medal, very fine and better (4) £100-£140

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

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Thomas Higgins was born on 17 November 1883 and attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry in 1905. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914, and later transferred to the 7th Battalion O.B.L.I. as Company Sergeant Major, serving with them in Salonika. Regimental records indicate that he later became a warder at Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, and he is recorded in the 1939 Register as a prison warder residing at 5 Hewitt Crescent, Parkhurst, Isle of Wight.

Sold together with several poorly photocopied photographic images of the recipient in uniform, including one as a Warder at Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight; several postcards of places visited by the recipient, including a Great War souvenir postcard of the O.B.L.I. listing battle honours; original field postcard sent home by Lce. Cpl. Higgins on 3 October 1914; original set of badges including white metal cap badge with slider, two brass bugle horn collar badges and a pair of ‘Oxf & Bucks’, shoulder titles in brass (gilding metal); Old Contemptibles Association lapel badge, numbered to the reverse 2036B; and a silver and enamel Patrons lapel badge of the Old Contemptibles Association.