Pair: Private H. R. Byng, 20th Middlesex (Artists) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Lieutenant, Natal Rangers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (1438 Pte. R. H. Byng, C.I.V.); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Lt. H. R. Byng, Natal Rangers) engraved in running script as issued to officers, light contact marks, very fine (2) £280-£320

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

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Harold Robert Byng was born at Portsea Island, Hampshire in 1874, the son of Lieutenant Arthur H. Byng, R.N. Belonging to an old Essex family, he was first cousin to Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, and also to Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng, author and sinologist.

An engineer by profession, Byng enlisted into the Artists Rifles in 1895 and served with their City Imperial Volunteers detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with the Infantry Battalion. His later career saw him take charge of the Borneo Railways for the British North Borneo Chartered Co. before retiring to Little Easton, Essex in 1928. He died there, aged 63, in 1938.