Pair: Private S. C. Rapson, 17th (North) Middlesex Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 19th (County of London) Battalion (St. Pancras) London Regiment, who was captured by the Boers at Britstown on 6 March 1900

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (249 Pte. S. C. Rapson, C.I.V.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (793 Sjt: S. C. Rapson. 19/Lond: Regt.) very fine (2) £160-£200

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

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Stanley Charles Rapson, an apprentice wireman, joined the 17th Middlesex (North Middlesex) Rifle Volunteers in 1897 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with the Infantry Battalion, City Imperial Volunteers. He was one of seven men of the 17th Middlesex Volunteer Rifles who went missing, captured by the Boers at Britstown on 6 March 1900. They were later released on 6 June 1900 after the capture of Pretoria by the British. The City Press, 11 August 1900, printed a letter from Sergeant A. Monk, in which he describes how he spent eight days in Prieska Gaol with Rapson and two others.

Rapson was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 95 of 1 April 1911, and served as a Colour Sergeant and Company Quarter Master Sergeant with the 19th (County of London) Battalion (St. Pancras) London Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 March 1915 until 25 February 1918.