Auction: 8016 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 85
Five: Second Lieutenant W.F.C. Field, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Later Labour Corps British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. W.F.C. Field); Territorial Force War Medal (426963 C/Sjt. W.F.C. Field. Lab. Corps.); Volunteer Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (3555 Sjt: W.F.C. Field. 1/Bucks: V.R.C.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (231 C. Sjt: W.F.C. Field. Bucks: Bn: O.&.B.L.I.), minor official erasure before number on last, generally good very fine Miniature Awards: Group of Six: British War and Victory Medals; Territorial Force War Medal; Defence Medal; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R.; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, uniface type, suspension re-affixed on first and last, very fine (11) Estimate £ 250-280 Second Lieutenant William Frederick Charles Field, born Windsor, Berkshire, May 1876; enlisted 231 Private, Buckinghamshire Territorial Force; December 1886; Corporal 8.8.1900; Sergeant, 15.8.1900; transferred as 426963 Company Quarter Master Sergeant, Labour Corps, 18.7.1917; served with 84th Company, Chinese Labour Corps, 6.9.1917; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Labour Corps, 17.5.1918; served in the French Theatre of War from 24.5.1918; discharged, 17.10.1919
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