Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel O. M. J. da Costa, 35th Scinde Horse, who died on 11 October 1918

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1901-2 (Capt., 8th Mule Corps) officially re-engraved naming; 1914-15 Star (Major, 35-Horse); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.); Memorial Plaque (Oscar Michael John da Costa) good very fine (5) £600-800

Oscar Michael John da Costa was born on 20 September 1868 in St. Lawrence on the Isle of Jersey, the son of John H. N. da Costa and his wife, Mary. At the time of the 1871 Census he was living with his parents, an elder brother, and four servants at 8 Windsor Crescent, St. Helier, Jersey. Oscar da Costa attended Sandhurst and was commissioned into the 21st Hussars on 30 January 1889. He was transferred as a Lieutenant to the 35th Scinde Horse on 15 April 1892. With them he served in Waziristan, 1901-02. Da Costa was promoted to Captain in January 1900, Major in January 1907 and Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1915. Lieutenant-Colonel Oscar da Costa, 35th Scinde Horse died of blood-poisoning at Jubbulpore on 11 October 1918. His name is commemorated on the Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial. His estate, valued at £324.15.2, was left to his wife, Mrs Coline Helen Phoebe da Costa. His elder brother, John da Costa, was an accomplished portrait painter who died in 1931. With copied research.