Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (564 Pte. S. V. Hunt, C.I.V.) minor edge bruising, good very fine £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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Stanley Vincent Hunt was born in 1875 in Selhurst, Surrey and was educated at Ardingly College. He attested for the Honourable Artillery Company on 15 February 1897 and was employed as a Surveyor’s Clerk before serving as a Bugler with the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War. He was invalided home on 10 May 1900 and is later recorded as being a farmer and employer at Stanley Hall, Embleton, Cumberland in 1911.