A Collection of Medals to the 43rd/52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Four: Major E. C. Fortescue, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

1914-15 Star (Capt., Oxf. & Bucks.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Major), mounted as worn; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for 1919, unnamed, complete with brooch bar, the four in a wooden glass-fronted case, extremely fine (4) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 43rd/52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

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Edward Charles Fortescue was born in Neithrop, Oxford, in 1880. He was appointed a Captain in the 4th Battalion Oxf. & Bucks. L.I. in April 1908 and served with the 1/4th Battalion during the Great War, August 1914-October 1915. Promoted to Major in July 1916, he was later 2 i/c of the 12th Battalion London Regiment. Sold with a quantity of copied research on the recipient and his father and brothers.

Note: glass not suitable for posting.