The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Five: Gunner W. F. Palles, Honourable Artillery Company and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Second Lieutenant, Royal Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (1342 Gnr: W. F. Palles. C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star (55 Sd. S. Sjt W. F. Palles. H.A.C. (Inf.)) minor official correction to first letter of rank; British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. W. F. Palles); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (55 Sd. Sjt: W. F. Palles. H.A.C.) on H.A.C. riband, good very fine (5) £300-£400

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

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William Francis Palles was born in Wardour, Wiltshire in 1866. He joined the Honourable Artillery Company on 10 October 1898 and served in the B Sub-division of the City Imperial Volunteers Battery in South Africa during the Boer War. He lived in Wimbledon, working as a manager for a Court Dressmaker before serving again with the H.A.C. (Artillery Section) during the Great War in the Egypt and Palestine theatres from 21 April 1915 in the rank of Sadler Staff Sergeant. He was promoted to Battery Quarter Master Sergeant before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps on 27 March 1918. He died in Surrey in 1934.