Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private E. Arkell, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action at Pozieres on 23 July 1916
1914-15 Star (3514 Pte. E. Arkell. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (3514 Pte. E. Arkell. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine

Three: Private L. J. Tucker, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 24 August 1917
1914-15 Star (2761 Pte. L. J. Tucker, Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2761 Pte. L. J. Tucker. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) very fine (6) £80-£100

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

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Ernest Arkell attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford and served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915. He was killed in action on 23 July 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, and is buried at Pozieres British Cemetery, Ovillers-La Boisselle, France.

Leonard Joseph Tucker, a native of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, was born in 1898 and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford. He served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915, and died of wounds on 24 August 1917. He is buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France.