Three: Acting Sergeant J. R. Shewry, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and Machine Gun Corps

1914-15 Star (18877 Pte. J. R. Shewry. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (18877 Pte. J. R. Shewry. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with the recipient’s two card identity discs ‘18877 J. Shewry C E Oxf & Bucks Lt. Inf’ and ‘48679 J Shewry C E 30 MGC’, good very fine (3) £60-£80

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

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Joseph Richard Shewry, a native of Coate, Bampton, Oxfordshire, attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford on 7 June 1915, and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 June 1915. He later transferred to the 30th Company, Machine Gun Corps, on 11 May 1916 and was appointed Acting Sergeant, later serving in Egypt. He was transferred to the Army Reserve from the 10th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, on 1 April 1919.

Sold with a late 1970s press cutting from an unattributed local newspaper with a photographic image of ‘The Aston Bellringers - Easter 1914’, including Joe Shewry; and three original postcard sized photographs of a small group of soldiers wearing O.B.L.I. and M.G.C. cap badges believed to include the recipient.