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Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Part 5
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Five: Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant B. A. Palmer, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (5257 Sjt. B. A. Palmer. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (5257 Sjt. B. A. Palmer. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5257 Sjt. B. A. Palmer. O. & B.L.I.) very fine and better (5) £140-£180 --- Bernard Arthur Palmer was born in 1879 and attested for the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers at the age of 17, on 20 June 1896. A few months later, on 10 August 1896, he sought a regular army engagement, and attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Much of his regular army service was spent in India, with the 2nd Battalion O.B.L.I., serving there from 1898 to 1914. Having initially landed in France on 5 December 1914, Palmer served during the Great War in Turkey and Asia. He again served in India from December 1915 to April 1919, and was appointed Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant of the 1st (Reserve) Battalion, O.B.L.I. on 1 December 1917. He returned to the United Kingdom for demobilisation on the termination of his second period of engagement on 9 May 1919, and died in Bristol in 1955.
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Five: Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant B. A. Palmer, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (5257 Sjt. B. A. Palmer. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (5257 Sjt. B. A. Palmer. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5257 Sjt. B. A. Palmer. O. & B.L.I.) very fine and better (5) £140-£180 --- Bernard Arthur Palmer was born in 1879 and attested for the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers at the age of 17, on 20 June 1896. A few months later, on 10 August 1896, he sought a regular army engagement, and attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Much of his regular army service was spent in India, with the 2nd Battalion O.B.L.I., serving there from 1898 to 1914. Having initially landed in France on 5 December 1914, Palmer served during the Great War in Turkey and Asia. He again served in India from December 1915 to April 1919, and was appointed Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant of the 1st (Reserve) Battalion, O.B.L.I. on 1 December 1917. He returned to the United Kingdom for demobilisation on the termination of his second period of engagement on 9 May 1919, and died in Bristol in 1955.
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