Four: Gunner B. D. W. Archer, Honourable Artillery Company and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Sergeant, Surrey Yeomanry, and Second Lieutenant, Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (1513 Gnr: B. D. W. Archer, C.I.V.); British War and Victory Medals (442 Sjt. B. D. W. Archer. Surr. Yeo.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (442 L. Sjt: B. W. Archer. Surrey Yeo.) very fine (4) £300-£400

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

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Bertram Dean Wykeham Archer was born in Fulham, London in 1876 and was admitted into the Honourable Artillery Company in January 1900, measuring 6’2” in height. He served with the C Sub-division of the City Imperial Volunteers Battery in South Africa during the Boer War and upon his return to England, resigned from the H.A.C. in December 1900. He served during the Great War with the Surrey Yeomanry on the Western Front from 22 December 1914 (also entitled to a 1914-15 Star), initially in the rank of Sergeant and was later discharged to a commission, serving as temporary Second Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps from 2 March 1918. He died at St. Agnes, Cornwall in 1953 and is buried in All Saints Churchyard, Martock, Somerset.