Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private E. T. Oakley, Cheshire Regiment, who suffered a gunshot wound to the right eye in Iraq
1914-15 Star (11561 Pte. E. T. Oakley, Ches: R.); British War and Victory Medals (11561 Pte. E. T. Oakley. Ches. R.) minor edge bruising to VM, good very fine

Three: Private H. Evans, East Lancashire Regiment, later Gloucestershire Regiment and Royal Welsh Fusiliers
1914-15 Star (2379 Pte. H. Evans. E. Lan. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2379 Pte. H. Evans. E. Lan. R.) very fine (6) £100-£140

Edgar Thomas Oakley, an ironworker, was born in Portsea in 1893 and attested for the Cheshire Regiment on 14 August 1914. Posted to the 8th Battalion, he served at Gallipoli from 26 June 1915 and was evacuated to hospital in Malta suffering from rheumatism in December 1915. Posted to Egypt with the 3rd Battalion, he further suffered from appendicitis in December 1916 and a gunshot wound to the face received on 8 April 1917; sent to hospitals in Basra and Baghdad, he was forced to return to England on 15 October 1917 for specialist eye care, effectively ending his campaign. Oakley died in the Wirral in 1928, his health never recovering from the extremes of climate and deprivations of war.

Herbert Evans, a chimney sweep, was born in Welshpool on 9 December 1886 and served in Egypt with the 1/4th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment from 10 September 1914. Transferred to the 17th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment on 29 October 1917, he was later discharged ‘medically unfit and wounded’. Returning home to 20 Rock Terrace, Welshpool, Evans recovered from his injuries and attested for the 7th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers in July 1920; this final period of home service proved fleeting and he was discharged on 15 July 1921.

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