The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (634 Pte. T. P. Baragwanath, C.I.V.); together with a gold (9ct, 9.61g, hallmarks for Birmingham 1911) and enamel shooting medal, obverse showing 2 crossed rifles and inscribed ‘Johnson Quartly. Challenge Shield’, reverse engraved ‘T. Baragwanath Jan. 1916’, very fine (2) £180-£220

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

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Thomas Phillips Baragwanath was born in West Ham, London in 1871 and was an artist and draughtsman by occupation. He joined the 1st London Royal Engineers Volunteers as a Sapper in 1891 and was one of 21 men from that unit to serve with the City Imperial Volunteers in South Africa during the Boer War. Baragwanath was also employed by the Sphere as a Special Artist during the Boer War. Drawings made from his sketches appeared in the Sphere on 7 April 1900 and 5 May 1900. He died in Wiltshire, England in 1952.

Frederick Baragwanath, younger brother of the recipient, also served in the C.I.V., during the Boer War where he too was an artist, working for the Graphic and the Sphere.