The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, South Africa 1901 (Capt. H. F. MacEwan. Middx. Rgt.) rank officially corrected, nearly extremely fine £240-£280

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

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Hugh Fletcher MacEwan was born on 9 July 1871 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment on 19 November 1892. He was promoted Lieutenant on 21 December 1895, and served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, being Mentioned in Despatches for his gallantry at Spion Kop: ‘Lieutenant MacEwan went out under a heavy fire and brought in a wounded man of the Scottish Rifles, who had fallen exhausted, the fire of that portion of our line having to be suspended to admit to the act.’ (London Gazette 8 February 1901).

MacEwan was promoted Captain on 14 March 1900, and retired on 11 January 1908.