Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private W. J. Sherman, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, who died of disease at Kroonstad on 30 March 1901

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (4284 Pte. J. Sherman 2nd. Bn. Oxf. Lt. Infy.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between third and fourth clasps (4284, Pte. W. J. Sherman, 1/Oxfd. L.I.) engraved naming, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £240-£280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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W. J. Sherman attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry and served with the 1st Battalion in the Mohmand Campaign on the North West Frontier of India, and is recorded on the medal roll as having been invalided. He subsequently served in South Africa during the Boer War, and died of disease at Kroonstad on 30 March 1901. He is commemorated on the Oxfordshire Light Infantry Boer War Memorial in Abingdon.