Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Brigadier General J. W. G. Roy, Sherwood Foresters

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Major, Derby. Rgt.); 1914-15 Star (Brig. Gen.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Brig. Gen.); Coronation 1911 (Lieut. Colonel, 2nd Sherwood Foresters), mounted for display, good very fine and better (5) £300-350

John William Gascoigne Roy was born in 1863, the eldest son of the Rev. R. C. Roy. Educated at Rossall, 1874-80, he entered the Army in 1884 as a Lieutenant in the Sherwood Foresters. With them he served in the Sikkim Expedition of 1888 and in 1892 was promoted Captain. In the Second Boer War he was a Special Service Officer for Mounted Infantry, in command of the 6th battalion Imperial Yeomanry, 6 September - 24 October 1901 and in command of the 21st battalion Mounted Infantry, 23 October 1901 - May 1902. He served in various operations in the Transvaal, October 1901 - April 1902, being dangerously wounded at Rooival, 11 April 1902; also in the Orange River Colony, April - September 1901 and the Cape Colony September - October 1901. For his services he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 29 July 1902) and received the brevet of Major. Promoted Major on 22 August 1902 and Lieutenant-Colonel on 18 January 1911, Roy served as D.A.A.G. War Office, 1906-10; A.A.G. War Office, 1913-15; on the Staff in France and Belgium, July 1915 - May 1916 and A.Q.M.G. War Office 1918-20. For his services he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 1 January 1916) and awarded the C.M.G. in 1919. He retired with the honorary rank of Brigadier General in 1920 and died in 1941.