The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Five: Private W. F. Gray, 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, who was one of only four men from the Regiment to receive both the Queen’s and Khedive’s Sudan Medals

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (870. Pte. W. Gray. 2/Bn. Midx. R.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (870 Pte. W. Gray, Middx: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (870 Pte. W. Gray. Middlesex Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (870 Pte. W. F. Gray. Middx: Regt.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (No. 870 Pte. W. Gray 2nd. Bn. Middlesex Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming, heavy contact marks and edge bruising, good fine and better, the first and last rare to unit (5) £800-£1,200

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, October 1975.

Walter Randall was born in Chelsea in 1863 and attested for the Middlesex Regiment at Hounslow on 2 January 1894, having previously served in the Regiment’s 3rd (Militia) Battalion. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, he was one of four men from the Regiment (Lieutenant Ingle, Sergeant Jack, and Corporal Shelburne) who proceeded on attachment with ‘Headquarters, British Division’ for service in Egypt and the Sudan from 1 July to 5 October 1898, and subsequently served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 2 December 1899 to 15 February 1902. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 234 of 1910, and was discharged on 24 October of that year, after 26 years and 296 days’ service.

Sold with copied service papers.