Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private T. W. Yates, 1st/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed on the Western Front on 19 April 1917

1914-15 Star (1935 Pte. T. W. Yates. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (1935 Pte. T. W. Yates. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas William Yates) nearly extremely fine (4) £140-£180

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

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Thomas William Yates was born at New Whittington, Derbyshire, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Culham, Oxfordshire. He served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915, and was killed in action on 19 April 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.