The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (972 G. B. Pocock, C.I.V.); together with the recipient’s 1899 ‘Queen’s shilling’, the obverse engraved ‘C.I. Volts. G. B. Pocock Jan 4th 1900’, and mounted for wearing on a fob in glazed lunettes with outer silver band, nearly extremely fine (2) £140-£180

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

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Geoffrey Buckingham Pocock was born in the City of London in October 1879. A clerk by occupation, he joined the 1st City of London Rifle Volunteers in 1896 and served in South Africa with the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War. He was invalided home on 11 June 1900, an article in the City Press, 18 July 1900 confirming him ‘Recently returned, sick’.

The 1901 census shows Pocock to be a resident of Hampstead, London and he later described his occupation as painter and teacher. He died in Suffolk in 1960.