The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (1170 Pte. J. T. Edwin, C.I.V.) nearly extremely fine £140-£180

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

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John Thomas Edwin was born in Tring, Hertforsdshire in 1873. A plumber by occupation, he joined the 2nd Middlesex Artillery Volunteers in 1891 and served with G Company in the City Imperial Volunteers Infantry Battalion during the Boer War. He was invalided to England in June 1900, whereafter a claimant for relief from the C.I.V. Families Fund named both him and G. Pegg (also of the 2nd Middlesex Artillery Volunteers) as her sons.

Sold together with the recipient’s Freedom of the City of London parchment certificate and a copy of ‘Rules for the Conduct of Life’, a booklet which accompanied the Freedom of the City; an original photograph of the recipient in uniform; and a silver topped C.I.V. swagger stick inscribed ‘1170 Pte. J. L. Edwin. G. Coy.’.