Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private S. Alder, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was wounded whilst serving with the British Expeditionary Force and evacuated to Ireland, where he died of wounds on 28 November 1914

1914 Star, with copy clasp (8175 Pte. S. Alder, 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20(5175 Pte. S. Alder. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with an erased Victory Medal 1914-19, traces of lacquer, nearly very fine (3) £120-£160

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

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Sidney Alder was born in Oxford and attested there for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 September 1914. Wounded, he was evacuated to Ireland, and died of his wounds at the Buttevant Camp Hospital, Cork, on 28 November 1914, aged 20. He is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Cork Military Cemetery Park.