The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (1497 Gnr: W. H. Murrell. C.I.V.) edge bruising, nearly very fine

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

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William Henry Murrell was born in Brighton in 1878. As a member of “D” sub-division of the Battery, he was one of just 9 men from the 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers to serve with the City of London Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War. In 1901 he was married, living at Stephen’s Avenue, Shepherd’s Bush and was a railway carriage works foreman. He was still a member of the Regimental Old Comrades Association in 1969 - the last time a list of members was made.

Colonel Boxall was appointed Depot Commandant of the C.I.V. on 6 February 1900. The C.I.V. was recruited from London Volunteer Regiments; however, since Colonel Boxall had been an officer of the Sussex Artillery Volunteers since April 1873, he asked for nine or ten volunteers from his old regiment to join the C.I.V. for active service in South Africa. Murrell was one of those volunteers.