Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private R. Blanchard, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1901, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3294 Pte. R. Blanchard. Oxford: Lt Infy:) unofficial affixing between state and date clasps; 1914-Star, with copy clasp (6981 Pte. R. Blanchard. 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.) Battalion no. officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (6981 Pte. R. Blanchard. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6931 Pte. R. Blanchard. Oxf & Bucks. L.I.) very fine (5) £200-£240

R. Blanchard serve with the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front form 13 August 1914.

Sold with photograph cut from a regimental chronicle of ‘Officers and other ranks, 2nd Battalion, 1914-19’ who went to France in August 1914 and came home in 1919, in which the recipient is identified.