Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal P. H. E. Bowers, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6101 Pte. P. Bowers. Oxford: Lt Infy:); 1914-15 Star (8356 Cpl. P. H. E. Bowers, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (8356 Pte. H. E. Bowers. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) very fine (4) £160-£200

Percival Henry Ernest Bowers was born in Oxford in 1881 and attested there for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry on 6 September 1899, having previously served in the Regiment’s 4th (Militia) Battalion. He served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 3 August 1901 to 5 March 1902, and saw further service during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 May 1915. He later served with the 23rd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers.

Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts.