Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Company Quarter Master Sergeant F. Dawes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for Salonika in 1918

1914-15 Star (16929 C.Q.M. Sjt. F. Dawes. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (16929 C. Sjt. F. Dawes. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (16929 C.Q.M. Sjt. F. Dawes. 8 Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.) good very fine (4) £160-£200

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

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M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1918.

Frank Dawes attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 September 1915. He subsequently served in Salonika and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for ‘Devotion to duty’, before transferring to the Army Reserve.