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

Three: Warrant Officer Class II T. A. Norris, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and Machine Gun Corps 1914 Star, with clasp (7484 L. Cpl. T. A. Norris. 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (7484 W.O Cl.2 T. A. Norris. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with the recipient’s miniature awards, these mounted as worn, generally very fine (3) £100-£140 --- Thomas Alfred Norris was born in 1885 at Clewer, Windsor, Berkshire and attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry at Slough, Buckinghamshire, on 27 October 1903. He was discharged to the Army Reserve on completion of his period of engagement but was recalled from the Reserve for service in the Great War. He served with the 2nd Battalion on the Western Front from 14 August 1914, and in September 1914 he was hospitalised with Dysentery. He subsequently transferred to 30th Company Machine Gun Corps on 11 May 1916, as a machine gunner, serving with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was re-numbered 48655. He was promoted Sergeant on posting to 80th Company, M.G.C., on 27 October 1916, before returning to the 30th Company, and embarked at Salonika, for service in Egypt, on 14 September 1917. He subsequently served with the 10th and 53rd Companies, and was discharged on 31 March 1920. He has not been traced as having been awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold together with a silvered O.B.L.I., collar badge converted to a lapel pin badge, with crudely repaired pin; and a postcard sized family group photograph with the recipient in civilian clothing post-War, wearing a Silver War Badge and O.B.L.I. pin badge.