Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Private J. Sherwood, East Kent Regiment, who died in Palestine on 16 December 1940

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6285978 Pte., The Buffs), service number re-impressed, an erasure after surname; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed, good very fine and better (4) £80-100

John William Sherwood enlisted into the East Kent Regiment on 11 April 1935. Embarked at Southampton on S.S. Laurentic on 14 September 1936 for service in Palestine. Disembarked at Bombay from the H.T. Somersetshire on 16 February 1937 and arrived at Lucknow on 19 February 1937. Later, returning to Palestine, he died on 16 December 1940, aged 27 years. He was buried in the Haifa War Cemetery and was the son of John Francis Giles and Harriet Sherwood of Saltwood, Hythe, Kent. Sold with copied research.