Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Part 3 5


A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private F. C. Ward, 4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who received his decoration for the action in which Corporal F. C. Wilcox was awarded the Victoria Cross


Military Medal, G.V.R. (265994 Pte. F. C. Ward, 4/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2970 Pte. F. C. Ward. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.), edge bruising, very fine (3)


£300-£400 M.M. London Gazette 17 June 1919.


F. C. Wardle, a native of Princess Risborough, attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 2nd/1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. The battalion was broken up in April 1918 and the remaining men were posted to the 2nd/4th Battalion. Regimental records suggest that Wardle’s Military Medal was awarded in November 1918 for the action in which Corporal F. C. Wilcox, of the same Battalion, received his Victoria Cross.


V.C. London Gazette 15 November 1918: ‘For most conspicuous bravery and initiative in attack [near Laventie, France , on 12 September 1918]. When his company was held up by heavy and persistent machine-gun fire at close range. On his own initiative, with four men he rushed ahead to the nearest enemy gun, bombed it, killed the gunner, and put the gun out of action. Being then attacked by an enemy bombing party, Corporal Wilcox picked up enemy bombs and led his party against the next gun, finally capturing and destroying it. Although left with only one man, he continued bombing and captured a third gun. He again bombed up the trench, captured a fourth gun, and then rejoined his platoon. Corporal Wilcox displayed in this series of successful individual enterprises exceptional valour, judgement, and initiative


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A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. pair awarded to Corporal R. G. Angell, 5th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action in France on 3 May 1916


Military Medal, G.V.R. (11543 Cpl. R. S. Angell. 5/O. & B.L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20 (11543 Pte. R. S. Angell. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine (2)


£280-£320 M.M. London Gazette 9 December 1916.


Richard Sidney Angell was born in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 April 1915, and was killed in action on 3 May 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.


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A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Private E. Horton, 5th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, late Army Cyclist Corps


Military Medal, G.V.R. (23824 Pte. E. Horton. 5/O. & B.L.I.); 1914-15 Star (3265 Pte. E. Horton, A. Cyc. Corps.); British War and Victory Medals (3265 Pte. E. Horton. A. Cyc. Corps.) light pitting, very fine (4)


£300-£400 M.M. London Gazette 9 December 1916.


Ernest Horton originally attested for the Army Cyclist Corps, and served with the 14th Divisional Cyclist Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 September 1915, before transferring to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and seeing further service with the 5th Battalion. He was discharged Class ‘Z on 10 March 1919.


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A Great War 1918 ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of five awarded to Company Quartermaster Sergeant F. Grimshaw, 5th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, later a Prisoner Warder at Dartmoor


Military Medal, G.V.R. (6564 Sjt: F. Grimshaw. 5/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (6564 C. Sjt. F. Grimshaw. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence Medal; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5374367 C.Q.M. Sjt. F. Grimshaw. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) polished, nearly very fine (5)


£300-£400 M.M. London Gazette 20 May 1918.


Frederick Grimshaw joined the Regular Army from the Militia in November 1900, and was posted to joined the Oxfordshire Light Infantry in India in 1903. On mobilisation for the Great War Grimshaw was appointed Sergeant Master Cook at the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Depot, prior to being posted to the 5th (Service) Battalion for service in the French theatre of war.


Grimshaw stayed in service after the war, and was employed in Army Recruitment at High Wycombe before being posted with the regiment to Ireland. He was discharged to Pension in November 1920, and joined the Prison Service. Grimshaw was first posted to Dartmoor, and helped to suppress a mutiny of Irish prisoners there. He died in Osney, Oxford in May 1949.


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