Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt-Col H. O. B. Wood.) edge bruise, very fine £60-£80

Henry Oswald Bell Wood was born in 1881 and was initially appointed to a commission in the 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. He witnessed active service during the Boer War in Orange River Colony (May to 29th November, 1900), including action at Wittebergen, and was later present with the 8th Rajputs on the North West Frontier of India, deployed in the Zakka Khel and Mohmand heartlands. He took part in the engagement at Kargha on 24 May 1908 and was later twice Mentioned in Despatches during the Great War (London Gazettes 21 January 1916 and 15 August 1917). Advanced Brevet Major in 1917 and Acting Lieutenant Colonel in 1920, he died at the County Hospital, Dorchester, on 2 July 1957.

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