Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (32849 Pte. E. J. Webb. 93rd. Coy. Imp: Yeo:) unofficial rivets between second and third clasps, very fine £120-160

Ernest Joseph Webb was born in Hayward’s Heath, Sussex, in 1880 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry in London on 7 March 1901, having previously served with the 1st Middlesex Volunteers. He served with the 93rd (3rd Sharpshooters) Company, 23rd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 29 March 1901 until 9 March 1902, and was discharged on 16 August 1902, after 1 year and 162 days’ service.