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20 August 2020

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The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 452

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20 August 2020

Hammer Price:
£200

Three: Private V. G. Tipper, 1st City of London Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Lieutenant, Egyptian Labour Force

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (955 Pte. V. G. Tipper, C.I.V.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. V. G. Tipper) nearly very fine (3) £120-£160

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

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Provenance: J. B. Hayward, July 1971.

Victor George Tipper, a stock exchange clerk by occupation, joined the 1st City of London Rifle Volunteers in 1897 and served in South Africa with the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War. He subsequently served during the Great War with the Army Service Corps in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 5 October 1915 and was commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant into the Egyptian Labour Force on 13 February 1917. He resigned his commission on completion of service on 6 July 1919, retaining the rank of Lieutenant, and died in Stepney, London in 1926.