Auction Catalogue

4 July 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Miniature Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 324

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£1,050

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Mr. L. C. Duncombe-Jewell “Morning Post”) good very fine £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to War Correspondents.

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Louis Charles Richard Jewell was born at Liskeard, Cornwall, on 10 September 1866. He assumed the additional surname of Duncombe in accordance with his Grandmother’s will in 1895. Formerly a Lieutenant in the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, he represented The Times in Spain during the rumours of an impending Carlist rising in 1898-99, and served as a Special War Correspondent for the Morning Post newspaper in South Africa, the same paper that also employed Winston Churchill, with the 3rd Division South African Field Force.

Duncombe-Jewell was a noted historian, novelist and verse-writer, and made numerous contributions to the
Pall Mall Gazette, Black and White Budget, and many other publications of the period. He was editor of Armorial Cornwall, founder and Hon. Sec. Celtic-Cornish Society, and leader of the Cornish Language Movement.