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Three: Second Lieutenant L. E. Davis, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, late A...
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Three: Second Lieutenant L. E. Davis, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, late Army Service Corps, who was wounded at Glencoe Wood on 25 August 1917 1914-15 Star (S4-038822 Sjt. L. E. Davis. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. L. E. Davis) very fine Three: Lieutenant T. H. Webb, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was twice wounded on the Western Front 1914-15 Star (1955 Pte. T. H. Webb. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. T. H. Webb) traces of verdigris, otherwise very fine Pair: Lieutenant R. A. W. Kennedy, Highland Light Infantry, attached 7th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. A. W. Kennedy) mounted as worn, very fine (8) £120-£160 --- Leonard Edgar Davis was born in Addlestone, Surrey on 13 June 1895. He attested for the Army Service Corps on 7 November 1913, and was promoted Sergeant on 4 August 1914. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 December 1914 and was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 26 April 1917. Returning to France in June 1917, he joined the 5th Battalion at Arras and was wounded by a gun shot to his leg at Glencourse Wood, Ypres, on 24 August 1917. A Medical Board report dated 11 July 1919 states that the injury sustained a fracture to his right femur and knee, which resulted in a 2.5” shortening of his right leg. Thomas Harry Webb, a student at Culham College, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, attested for the 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 23 September 1913. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915 and was wounded on the Somme on 19 July 1916, with multiple gun shot wounds to his right forearm. Commissioned on 26 April 1917, he returned to his battalion in July 1917 and was further wounded by a shell splinter to his cheek on 28 August 1917. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 26 October 1918. Ronald Alexander Whitelaw Kennedy was born in Glasgow in 1893. He was commissioned into the 2/5th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry for service during the Great War, and served in Salonika from May 1917, attached to the 7th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He died in York on 20 February 1966.
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Three: Second Lieutenant L. E. Davis, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, late Army Service Corps, who was wounded at Glencoe Wood on 25 August 1917 1914-15 Star (S4-038822 Sjt. L. E. Davis. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. L. E. Davis) very fine Three: Lieutenant T. H. Webb, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was twice wounded on the Western Front 1914-15 Star (1955 Pte. T. H. Webb. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. T. H. Webb) traces of verdigris, otherwise very fine Pair: Lieutenant R. A. W. Kennedy, Highland Light Infantry, attached 7th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. A. W. Kennedy) mounted as worn, very fine (8) £120-£160 --- Leonard Edgar Davis was born in Addlestone, Surrey on 13 June 1895. He attested for the Army Service Corps on 7 November 1913, and was promoted Sergeant on 4 August 1914. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 December 1914 and was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 26 April 1917. Returning to France in June 1917, he joined the 5th Battalion at Arras and was wounded by a gun shot to his leg at Glencourse Wood, Ypres, on 24 August 1917. A Medical Board report dated 11 July 1919 states that the injury sustained a fracture to his right femur and knee, which resulted in a 2.5” shortening of his right leg. Thomas Harry Webb, a student at Culham College, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, attested for the 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 23 September 1913. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915 and was wounded on the Somme on 19 July 1916, with multiple gun shot wounds to his right forearm. Commissioned on 26 April 1917, he returned to his battalion in July 1917 and was further wounded by a shell splinter to his cheek on 28 August 1917. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 26 October 1918. Ronald Alexander Whitelaw Kennedy was born in Glasgow in 1893. He was commissioned into the 2/5th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry for service during the Great War, and served in Salonika from May 1917, attached to the 7th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He died in York on 20 February 1966.
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