The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (310 Pte. I. S. Vaughan, C.I.V.) minor edge nicks, good very 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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Isaac Stewart Vaughan was born in Clewer, Berkshire in 1871. A bank clerk by occupation, he joined the 13th Middlesex (Queen’s Westminster) Rifle Volunteers in 1893 and served in South Africa with “F” Company of the Infantry Battalion, City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War.

Vaughan was among a group of men from the Queen’s Westminsters who shared a mess with Private Fred Pickman on the boat to Cape Town. Pickman noted in his diary, which was later published with interpolations by Geoffrey Moore as ‘Pickman’s Progress’ how the men of “F” Company were adjusting to life at sea:
‘24 January 1900: Everybody back to their old form again & getting quite nautical. My mess No. 10 very jolly fellows and a bit thick. Haddock, Vaughan, White, Pattenden, Cameron, Ormrod.’

Vaughan is subsequently mentioned as serving together with Pickman as an Orderly.