A Great War D.S.O. group of five to Lieutenant-Colonel B. J. G. Woods, Army Service Corps

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with top bar (lacking pin fitting); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., A.S.C.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.) good very fine (5) £1200-1400

D.S.O. London Gazette 14 January 1916.

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1916.

Lieutenant-Colonel B. J. G. Woods was the son of Major H. B. Woods, late R.M.L.I. and Annie, daughter of the late Major-General J. Pickard, R.M.L.I. He was educated at Mannamead School, Plymouth. After service in the Natal Mounted Police, 1891-94, he was gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant in the Worcestershire Regiment in April 1900 and Lieutenant in January 1901. Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 1 May 1901 and Lieutenant on 1 May 1902, he served in the Boer War, in operations in the Cape Colony and Orange Free State, February 1902 and in the Transvaal, February-May 1902. Woods was promoted Captain in February 1905 and Major in October 1914. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches and appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. (For his father’s medals, see lot 942)