WW1 MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL & BRITISH WAR MEDAL TO SGT GREEN 2/4th OX & BUCKS.

Sergeant Green was awarded his Meritorious Service Medal in recognition ‘of valuable service rendered with the Armies in France & Flanders’.

Offered is a British War Medal impressed named 1413 SJT.O.E.GREEN. OXF. & BUCKS.L.I.; Army Meritorious Service Medal (G.V.R.) impressed named 200062 S^JT O.E.GREEN. 4/OXF: & BUCKS:L.I. Comes with medal index cards, medal roll, copy London Gazette 18/1/1919, 1939 census & 1941 newspaper article.

Meritorious Service Medal gazetted: London Gazette 18/1/1919

Oliver Edward Green's records did not survive the WW2 ‘Blitz’, however what is known is that his entire service was with the 2/4^th Battalion Oxfordshire & Berwickshire (Oxs & Bucks) Light infantry. His home city being Coventry.

It is believed that he would have been one of the original members when the battalion was raised due to his regimental number of 1413 and he was a Sergeant when he landed in France post 1/1/1916. When the Army re numbered in 1917 he was allocated the new number of 200062.

This is a rather low number as the block  200001- 240000 was allocated to the 4^th Bn Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in recognition ‘of valuable service rendered with the Armies in France & Flanders’. He survived the war. The 1939 census records shows him as living in Coventry with his occupation as ‘Building foreman’. A newspaper article 11/2/1941 titles ‘Expensive Forgetfulness’ was fined $11 for an un insured car. His explanation 'Busy clearing away debris since the big raid’. His address was Middleborough Rd Coventry & he died 1964 in Coventry.

2/4^th BATTALION OXFORDSHIRE & BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY.

Formed at Oxford in September 1914 as a second line unit.

January 1915 : moved to Northampton and attached to 184th Brigade in 61st (2nd South Midland) Division. Moved to Writtle and quickly on to Broomfield (Essex) in April 1915.

January 1916 : moved to Parkhouse Camp, Salisbury Plain.

24 May 1916 : landed in France.

7 April 1918: absorbed the 25th Entrenching Battalion.

March 1919 : sailed for Egypt and was still there by the end of that year.