OXLEY Oscar Vernon
4/357 Trooper, Wellington Mounted Rifles, WWI
36906 Trooper, 23 Battalion, WWII
21124 Legion of Frontiersmen, New Zealand

CITATION
Military Medal
Gazetted 2 April 1918, p4023
For bravery in the field at the Battle of Ayun Kara.

AWARDS
Military Medal
1914-15 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal
1939-45 Star
Africa Star
War Service Medal
New Zealand War Service Medal


NOTES
Born 20 January 1894 Nelson, New Zealand
Died 19 July 1981 Wellington, New Zealand
Cremated but no known grave

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Behobeho          East Africa 1915 - 1917          Nyangao          Kilimanjaro          Great War 1917          Belgium 1914 -18
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