WW1 Victory Medal to Lain Ox & Bucks L I.

A very interesting WW1 Victory medal correctly named to 5375 Private Albert V Lain Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
Albert Victor lain was born in Lowestoft Suffolk 1897. He enlisted into the Suffolk regiment in the early February 1915 and put into the 2nd/6th Cyclist battalion Suffolk regiment, but during May 1916 he was transferred to the 2nd/1st battalion Ox & Bucks light infantry and landed in France by the 24th of May 1916, part of 184th Brigade in 61st (2nd South Midland) Division. The first major action in which the Division was engaged turned out to be an unmitigated disaster. An attack was made on 19th July 1916 at Fromelles, a secondary action to the Somme. The Division suffered very heavy casualties with no significant gain, and such was the damage to the Division and its reputation that it was not used again other than for holding trench lines until 1917. Albert was wounded on the 26th August 1916 when an enemy mortar exploded in his trench, burying him in rubble, this resulted in him loosing his sight in his right eye. By October 1916 he was back in Fance now with the 4th Reserve battalion Ox & Bucks and spent some time in the Lewis Gun section on the 22nd of August 1917 he was again wounded, this time with a Gun Shot wound to his left leg.
The army must have thought something of Albert; while recovering in England he was sent to the Royal Ordinance College in Woolwich, with a significant rise in pay. Obviously after he had recovered from his injuries, he was transferred several times, although his service papers do not record why, I believe it was because he was now an Ordnance expert 3rd class. We see him in the Suffolk regiment 4th august 1918, East Surrey Regiment 24th August 1918, Suffolk Regiment 20th September 1918 and then finally to the Army Service Corps December 1918.
He was finally discharged on the 1st of June 1919 at Woolwich and after he went back home to his mother at 15 Trafalgar Street, Lowestoft. I do not know what happened to Albert after the war, but we see him with his wife Martha, living still in Lowestoft, here he is employed as a Stevedore, probably at Lowestoft’s busy fishing port.
Sadly, Albert Died on 19th February 1944, and he is Buried at Lowestoft Cemetery, Suffolk.
This medal is in good order and comes with a whole host of copied paperwork, so there is a lot more information to glean from what is included.

Code: 30215