Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private A. E. Wyatt, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, later Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was wounded during the Great War on the Western Front, and subsequently served with the Dunsterville Column in the British Mission to the Caucasus

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (6468 Pte. A. Wyatt. Oxford: L.I.); 1914-15 Star (6468 Pte. A. E. Wyatt. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (6468 Pte. A. E. Wyatt. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) edge bruising to QSA, nearly 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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Albert Edward Wyatt was born at Darlaston, Staffordshire, and attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry at Birmingham on 18 September 1900. He served with 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, and was employed as a Regimental Policeman. He was discharged on termination of his engagement and transferred to the Army Reserve on 21 November 1908. He was recalled from the Army Reserve for service in the Great War on 5 August 1914 and served with the 2nd Battalion on the Western Front from 29 November 1914. He was wounded by gun shot to the head and back at Richebourg on 13 May 1915; recovering from his wounds, he was posted firstly to the 1st Battalion, O.B.L.I., and then to the Dunsterville Column in the British Mission to the Caucasus as an Officer’s servant on 14 January 1918. He was discharged in February 1919.