The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (1308 Dr: P. F. Lucas, C.I.V.) polished, very fine £100-£140

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

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Percy Francis Lucas was born in Barnet, Middlesex in 1879. A member of the legal profession, he was admitted into the Honourable Artillery Company in 1899 and served as a Driver with C Sub-division of the City Imperial Volunteers Battery in South Africa during the Boer War. He resigned from the H.A.C. in 1906 and, giving his occupation as clerk, he sailed to Buenos Aires, Argentina the same year. After the commencement of hostilities in 1914 he returned to England as a ‘Volunteer from Argentina’ and served as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery and later as a Captain in the Machine Gun Corps. He emigrated to British Guyana in 1927, now giving his occupation as ‘Accountant’, and died in Bedford, England in 1939. Lucas is also recorded as having received the Incorporated Law Society tribute medal.