The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

The Q.S.A. awarded to Private F. G. P. Gedge, 13th Middlesex (Queen’s Westminster) Volunteer Rifles and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Major, Royal Engineers, who was awarded the D.S.O. and twice Mentioned in Despatches during the Great War

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (1153 Pte. F. P. Gedge, C.I.V.) contact marks and edge nicks, nearly very fine £200-£240

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

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D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

Frederick George Peter Gedge was born in Redhill, Surrey on 29 June 1880, the son of Edward and Sarah Gedge. He served in South Africa during the Boer War with the 13th Middlesex (Queen’s Westminster) Volunteer Rifles detachment as part of the No. 1 Mounted Infantry Company, City Imperial Volunteers.

Following the outbreak of the Great War, Gedge was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 1st London Divisional Engineers, 1st Field Company, Royal Engineers on 23 March 1915, and served with the 512 (London) Field Company, R.E. on the Western Front from 11 July 1916.

Promoted Temporary Major on 13 October 1916, he was twice Mentioned in Despatches for his services in France (London Gazettes 18 May 1917 and 14 December 1917), and awarded the Distinguished Service Order. Diagnosed on 17 December 1917 with disability due to malaria from previous service overseas causing debility and lumbago, he relinquished his commission on 20 May 1919.

During the Second World War, Gedge served as Officer Commanding, Wimborne Home Guard, and later emigrated to South Africa, dying at Tafeni in 1968.