Medals from the Collection of the late Roy Painter

A Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel O. C. Sherwood, West India Regiment, attached Ordnance Store Department and Army Ordnance Department 1884-1904

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lt: Col: O. C. Sherwood. A.O.D.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Lt: Col: O. C. Sherwood. A.O.D.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. O. C. Sherwood.) good very fine (6) £1,400-£1,800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Roy Painter.

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D.S.O. London Gazette 4 June 1917: ‘Oliver Caton Sherwood, Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel), Retired Pay, late Army Ordnance Department.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 September 1901; 22 June 1915 and 29 May 1917.

Oliver Caton Sherwood was appointed Lieutenant in the West India Regiment on 23 August 1884; Captain, 19 July 1893; Major, 20 January 1898; Lieutenant-Colonel, 29 November 1900. He served with the expedition to Ashanti under Sir Francis Scott in 1895 in the Ordnance Store Department (granted the higher rate of pay, Star). Served in the South African war 1899-1900, appointed to act in a superior departmental rank from 5 January 1900 (despatches London Gazette 10 September 1901; Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel; Queen’s medal with 2 clasps). Served with the B.E.F. in France and Flanders from 17 August 1914, attached 3rd Echelon, General Headquarters (1914 Star - clasp not confirmed).