Five: Private F. C. W. Beart, 1st City of London Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Sergeant, 5th Battalion, London Regiment, Royal Flying Corps, and Royal Air Force

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (D47 Pte. F. C. W. Beart, C.I.V.); 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (6541 Sjt. F. C. W. Beart. 5/Lond: R.); British War and Victory Medals (6541 Sjt. F. C. W. Beart. 5-Lond. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (6541 Sjt: F. C. W. Beart. 5/London Regt.) mounted as worn, edge bruising, nearly very fine (5) £300-£400

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

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Frederick Charles Wallace Beart was born in Brondesbury, Middlesex in 1876 and was an engineer by civilian occupation. He joined the 1st City of London Rifle Volunteers before serving in South Africa among the draft of reinforcements with the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War. He attested for the 5th Battalion, London Regiment on 26 May 1908, was promoted Sergeant, and was awarded the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 186 of 1909.

After the outbreak of the Great War, Beart served in France with the 1/5 London Regiment from 4 November 1914. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on 3 January 1917 with service number 51335 and then to the Royal Air Force on its formation on 1 April 1918 as Sergeant Mechanic with number 402244. He was transferred to the R.A.F. Reserve on 22 February 1919 and discharged on 30 April 1920. He died in Surrey in 1938.