The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg (1131 Pte. J. C. Appleford, C.I.V.) nearly extremely fine £120-£160

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

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James Chapman Appleford was born in Didcot, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) in 1877. A grocer by trade, he joined the 13th Middlesex (Queen’s Westminster) Volunteer Rifles on 20 January 1896 and served in South Africa with their detachment with No. 1 Company, Mounted Infantry, City Imperial Volunteers. He died of dysentery at Wynber on 6 April 1900 and like many of the C.I.V. casualties he was commemorated in multiple locations.

Appleford’s gravestone at All Saints Church, Didcot contains the inscription ‘In loving memory of James Chapman Appleford (of City Imperial Volunteers) who died of dysentery at Wynberg, South Africa on Friday April 6th 1900 Aged 23 years.’

Appleford’s name was also included on a memorial in the London Orphan Asylum, Watford and a metal plaque in memory of several members of the Queen's Westminster Volunteers who died in the South African war was unveiled in the north cloister of Westminster Abbey on 22nd June 1901. The inscription reads:
‘In memory of the following members of The Queens Westminster Volunteers (13th Middlesex) who joined The City of London Imperial Volunteers and died during the campaign in South Africa 1900. Lance Corporal Charles Francis Nixon, Privates Frederick Nance Aylen, James Chapman Appleford, John Heath Bryce, Reginald Darling Cameron, Sidney Carr and Francis Henry Welsby.’

On 17 May 1900, £100 was paid by the C.I.V. fund to Mrs. Appleford, 157 Sydney Terrace, Oxford Rd. Reading (next of kin).