Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Nine: Colonel L. C. Sherer, Leicestershire Regiment

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Bimb: L. C. Sherer E.A. Tpt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (Major L. C. Sherer. Leic: Regt.) official correction to rank; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Maj. L. C. Sherer. Leic. Rgt.); 1914 Star (Col: L. C. Sherer.); British War and Victory Medals (Col. L. C. Sherer.); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed as issued; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 4th Class breast abdge, silver, gold and enamel; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, Firket, Hafir, unnamed as issued, some chips to enamel on the Medjidie and some light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (9) £1,400-£1,800

Lionel Copley Sherer, son of John W. Sherer, C.S.I., was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Leicestershire Regiment on 11 August 1880; Lieutenant, 1 July 1881; Captain, 5 September 1888; Major, 14 August 1901; and Lieutenant-Colonel, 10 September 1908. He served as a Special Service Officer with the Dongola Expeditionary Force under Sir Herbert Kitchener in 1896, including the engagement at Firket and the operations at Hafir (mentioned in despatches, Khedive’s Medal with 2 Clasps, English Medal). He then served in the South African war with the 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, in command of a Mounted Infantry Battalion, from 9 October to 7 December 1900, and in command 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, from 15 December 1900 to 29 April 1901. Sherer took part in the operations in Natal in 1899, including actions at Talana and Lombard’s Kop, and at the Defence of Ladysmith; and was in Natal, from March to June 1900, including action at Laing's Nek, 6 to 9 June, as well as in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, from July to 29 November 1900, including actions at Belfast and Lydenberg. He was once more in the Transvaal from November 1900 to September 1901, and from October 1901 to 31 May 1902. Sherer was also involved in the operations on the Zululand Frontier of Natal in September and October 1901 (despatches London Gazette 8 February 1901; Queen’s Medal with 4 Clasps, King’s Medal with 2 Clasps). He served during the Great War as Colonel on the Reserve of Officers and was in France from 10 August 1914, as A.A.Q.M.G. Headquarters No. 3 Base.