Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Part 6

Six: Second Lieutenant C. R. Trelease, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, late Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in the Second World War 1914-15 Star (2788 Pte. C. R. Trelease. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. C. R. Trelease.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Sub-Inspr. Charles R. Trelease) contact marks, generally very fine (6) £100-£140 --- Charles Reginald Trelease was born at Taunton, Somerset, on 30 April 1891 and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 26 March 1918, serving on attachment to the 6th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. He was promoted Lieutenant on 27 September 1919. He is noted in the Army List for November 1932 as a Captain in 13th London Regiment (Princess Louise’s Kensington Regiment), with seniority from 4 November 1924, and resigned his commission on 11 October 1934. Trelease is recorded in the 1939 Register as residing in Hammersmith, and was a Civil Servant and Technical Assistant in the Gas Testing Section, for the Board of Trade. He is also noted as a Sub-Inspector in the Metropolitan Police Special Constabulary. He was appointed to be a Probationary Pilot Officer in the Administration and Special Duties Branch of the Royal Air Force on 5 September 1941. He died at Sutton, Surrey, in September 1984. Sold together with a photographic image of the recipient.