Three: Driver H. M. Perkins, Honourable Artillery Company and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (1317 Drvr: H. M. Perkins, C.I.V.); British War and Victory Medals (H. M. Perkins D.H. M.F.A.) good very fine (3) £100-£140

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

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Herbert Mottram Perkins was born in Marylebone, London on 12 October 1878. Employed as a clerk, he was given the Freedom of the City of London as a member of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers in 1899 and joined the Honourable Artillery Company in November the same year. He served in D Sub-division of the City Imperial Volunteers Battery in South Africa during the Boer War and later served as a Deck Hand in the Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary during the Great War.