Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private H. Kent, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

1914 Star, with clasp (8522 Pte. H. Kent, 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (8522 Pte. H. Kent. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with a Rhine Army Horse Show 1919 Prize Medal, bronze, crudely engraved ‘H. Kent. 52 L.I.’, very fine (4) £80-£100

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

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Harry Kent attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 September 1914. Believed to have been wounded by gun shot to the left leg in November 1914, he subsequently served with the Essex Regiment, the Devonshire Regiment, and the Labour Corps.

Sold together with a postcard photograph of the recipient in uniform.