Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Officer’s Steward II J. S. Wood, Mercantile Marine and 23rd Battalion, London Regiment

British War Medal 1914-20 (L.10021 J. S. Wood. O.S. 2. R.N.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Joseph S. Wood) officially re-impressed naming; Victory Medal 1914-19 (L.10021 J. S. Wood. O.S. 2. R.N.); Defence Medal; Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial (6768807 Sjt. J. S. Wood. 23-Lond. R.) mounted for display, with Second War campaign medal card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. J. S. Wood, 4 Poulton Avenue, Sutton, Surrey’, very fine (5) £140-£180

Joseph Samuel Wood was born in Brixton, London in February 1894. He was employed as a Ship’s Steward in the Merchant Navy, and served with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve prior to the Great War. Service as an Officer’s Steward II with the Mercantile Marine included with H.M. Ships Royal Arthur (a guard ship at Scapa Flow) and the Courageous (cruiser).