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Auction: 22101 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 252

Pair: Major A. Tubbs, 2/1st Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, attached 2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major. A. Tubbs.), mounted as worn, official correction to rank and initial on BWM, good very fine, together with corresponding miniature awards (4)

M.I.D. London Gazette 9 July 1919.

Albert M. Tubbs, who was born in 1883, was a native of Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire and served in France at the rank of Major from May 1916. He is recalled in The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, by Captain G. K. Rose, for his actions on 26 April 1917:

'Such prayers and hopes on April 26, when a quiet, easy relief was specially desired, came near to being falsified. At dusk, just as our companies were starting towards Fayet, the enemy commenced an operation against Cepy Farm, a ruined building near the front line, predestined by its position to be an object of contention. The attack was ably dealt with by Tubbs’ company of the Bucks and had proved abortive for the enemy. The circumstance was accompanied by much erratic shelling from both sides.'

He would also surely gain entries in The Story of the 2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment 1914-1918, by A. F. Barnes. Tubbs also played a role in the local Conservative Association after the Great War and appears to have been publican of The Red Lion at Wycombe by 1939.

His son, Albert William Tubbs (No. 564445), who flew with No. 254 Squadron, Royal Air Force was killed on 24 March 1941 and is buried at Monks Risborough.

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