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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 753

Four: Major N.B. Oakes, Suffolk Regiment 1914 Star, with Bar (Lieut. N.B. Oakes. Suff.R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Capt. N.B. Oakes), BWM renamed; India General Service 1908-35, one clasp, Malabar 1921-22 (Capt N.B. Oakes, Suff. R.), nearly very fine or better (4) Estimate £ 420-460 Major Nigel Beilby Oakes, born 1890; educated at Cheltenham College 1905-09 and R.M.C. Sandhurst; commissioned Second Lieutenant Suffolk Regiment, 3.10.1910; Lieutenant 12.9.1913; served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion on the Western Front, 12.8.1914-2.10.1915, during which time he was with the battalion when they were nearly wiped out at the battle of Le Cateau (26.8.1914), covering the retreat of the Army from the battlefield, ´Eventually we re-formed in a field miles to the south it was, and then roll was called. We had two officers left out of twenty-six, Lieutenant Oakes the Transport Officer and Captain Blackwall the Quartermaster. And there was only two hundred and fifty men out of more than eleven hundred.´ (1914, L. MacDonald, refers); the British Forces suffered over 7,000 casualties during the battle; Captain 11.5.1915; served in the Balkan Theatre of War, 3.10.1915-9.8.1918 (M.I.D. London Gazette 22.6.1915); Major 1.2.1932; Major Reserve of Officers 24.8.1939.

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