The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (937 Pte. C. W. Potter, C.I.V.) nearly extremely 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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Charles Woodhead Potter was born in Hampstead in July 1872 and joined the 1st City of London Rifle Volunteers in 1893. A clerk by occupation, he served in South Africa with No. 1 Mounted Infantry, City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War and was invalided home on 25 April 1900 on S.S. Austral suffering severely from enteric fever. He was given two months’ sick furlough.