The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (D60 Pte. F. A. Melsom, C.I.V.) slight edge bruising, otherwise good 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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Frederick Augustus Melsom was born at St. Pancras, London on 12 June 1880. A clerk by occupation, he joined the 3rd Middlesex Artillery Volunteers and served with the Mounted Infantry, City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War as part of the reinforcement detachment. During the Great War he joined the Royal Flying Corps on 19 June 1916 and the Royal Air Force upon its formation on 1 April 1918. He was discharged on 30 April 1920 and died in 1959.