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Warrant Officer Percy Miller | DCM

A photograph of C Cox, 1st Oxfordshire and Bucks athletics team in India. A photo of Stones Athletic Football team in 1920. A photo of a regimental reunion in around 1960. A certificate accompanying the Jubilee Medal of 1935. A newspaper photo of Messrs Hoods Banbury, 1924. Medal bar including the DCM and 1st and 2nd World War medals.
Miller joined the 43rd Light Infantry (officially 1st Battalion of Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry by then?) before 1913. He served with them in Mesopotamia and was captured and held as a p.o.w. in Turkey. (NB http://www.britisharmedforces.org/li_pages/regiments/obli/ox_index.htm states that only 9 men survived this, of 300 caputured). May have been repatriated, and then served in France, where he was awarded the DCM. He was then still a private soldier. After World War One he was probably transferred to the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars, with whom he served in World War Two. In 1935 he became Band Sergeant Major (? BSM). He also served in India.

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Janet Ashton

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1913 - 1945

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deu

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Europeana 1914-1918

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1945
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1945

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1945

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Janet Ashton | europeana19141918:agent/a402c852bfe5e604e264b46466ab751e
Percy Miller | europeana19141918:agent/b6d8bf24430035f309412b019a8a1d17

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Percy George Tollett (24250) was a private with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 2nd battalion. He was killed in action during an attack on Beaumont Hamel in November 1916. He has no known grave but is on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. He married Helen Sarah less than a year before he was killed. She never re-married but spent the rest of her life in a small cottage in Wolvercote, Oxfordshire. || Photographs of Percy Tollett and comrade in uniform ; Percy Tollett with his wife Helen Sarah nee Quarterman ; Helen Sarah Tollett || || Percy Tollett with colleague || Percy Tollett on the left || || Photograph || Remembrance || Front || Percy Tollett with his wife Helen Sarah || Home Front || || Helen Sarah Tollett || Photograph

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