Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Diamond Hill (365 Pte T. D. Bayley, C.I.V.) edge bruise, 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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Thomas Donovan Bayley was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, on 16 February 1881, the son of Thomas Bayley, an analytical chemist and his wife Clara. Initially a veterinary medical student, he joined the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Middlesex Regiment on 25 January 1898 and served in South Africa with the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War. Upon returning to England he lived in Hendon and later Lewisham where, in 1911, his personal occupation was ‘journalist on a daily newspaper’. In 1939 he was living in Elham, Kent and described his occupation as ‘author and journalist at present incapacitated (heart). Enrolled with Society of Authors for war work.’ He died the same year.