The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Four: Driver E. S. Halford, Honourable Artillery Company and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Major, Royal Garrison Artillery, who was besieged at Kut during the Great War and was three times Mentioned in Despatches

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (1304 Dvr: E. S. Halford, C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. E. S. Halford. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major E. S. Halford) mounted as worn, minor edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £300-£400

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

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Edgar Samuel Halford was born in Paddington, London in 1881 and joined the Honourable Artillery Company in December 1899 while working as a solicitor’s clerk. He served in the C Sub-division of the City Imperial Volunteers Battery in South Africa during the Boer War, following which he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Cornwall and Devon Miners Artillery (Western Division), Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia) on 2 April 1901, before transferring to the Royal Garrison Artillery on 24 June 1903. Promoted Lieutenant in June 1906 and Captain in October 1914, he served during the Great War in Mesopotamia and was Mentioned in Despatches by Major-General C. V. F. Townshend for the Operations in Mesopotamia 1915-16, during the period covering the the Battle of Ctesiphon and the ensuing retirement to Kut al Amara (London Gazette 13 July 1916), and was again Mentioned for distinguished services during the Defence of Kut (London Gazette 19 October 1916). Promoted Major on 30 September 1917, he served after the Great War at Archangel, North Russia, from May 1919 until October 1919, again being Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 3 February 1920). He retired on 24 June 1932, after 29 years’ service.