Orders, Decorations and Medals

British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. T. B. Jack) nearly extremely fine £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Brigadier Brian Parritt, C.B.E..

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Thomas Barclay Jack was born in Seaford, England on 30 December 1894. He was educated at London House School, Seaford, Wellington College, Brighton Technical School, Hamilton C.I. and University of Toronto. Prior to joining the British Army, he had served as a Private in the Wellington College O.T.C. and in the University of Toronto O.T.C. In May 1915 he was gazetted in to the Army Service Corps and was advanced to Lieutenant in September and Captain in November the same year. He was attached to the 2nd/10th Battalion London (Queen’s Westminster) Regiment in May 1918, and on 24 August 1918, he died of wounds, having received a gunshot wound to the chest. He was buried in the Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, France. He was the son of Arthur and Barbara Jack, of The Moorings, Seaford, Sussex. Sold with some original paperwork re. the death and burial of Captain Jack, together with some copied service papers.