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

Pair: Captain and Quartermaster G. F. L. Hayes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, late Norfolk Regiment and Army Pay Corps

British War Medal 1914-20 (Q.M. & Capt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue (323 S. Sjt., A.P.C.), second with minor edge bruising, nearly extremely fine (2) £90-120

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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George Frederick Lacy Hayes was born in Calcutta on 13 September 1865 (elsewhere given as 28 March 1866). A Clerk by occupation, he enlisted into the Norfolk Regiment at Cork on 13 February 1883. He served seven years with the Norfolks, two years with the Military Staff Corps and twelve years with the Army Pay Corps, during which time he served in India, South Africa and Burma. For his services he was awarded the India General Service Medal with clasp for Burma 1887-89, the Queen’s and King’s South Africa Medals and the Army L.S. & G.C. He was discharged at his own request with the rank of Staff Quartermaster Sergeant in 1905. With the onset of war he applied for a posting in the Army and in 1915 was appointed Captain and Quartermaster to the 1st Garrison Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in India. He returned to England in June 1919 suffering from a number of medical complaints and in November was released from duty. Sold with copied servce papers.