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

Four: Major A. C. Eyre, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Capt. A. C. Eyre. Oxf. & Bucks.); together with the related miniature award, these mounted as worn, light contact marks, good very fine, the last rare to unit (4) £160-£200 --- Anthony Courtney Eyre was born on 11 February 1922, the son of Major William Valentine Eyre, and was educated at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire. In the October 1944 Army List he is recorded as a Second Lieutenant, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, with a Regular Army Emergency Commission, with seniority from 23 August 1941, but also a War Substantive Lieutenant, with seniority from 1 October 1942. He was granted a Regular Army Commission as a Lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 5 December 1945, with seniority from 11 August 1944, and was promoted Captain on 11 February 1949. The Regimental Journal notes that in 1947 he was seconded for service in Germany for Operation Woodpecker, and went to fell trees in the Harz Mountains and Luneburg Heath in order to export German timber to the U.K. for reconstruction. In 1949 he was seconded to the Pakistan Army, and in 1951 is recorded as serving with the 1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. He retired on 1 September 1955, and was granted the honorary rank of Major. Sold together with a portrait photograph of the recipient.