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20 August 2020

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The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 522

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20 August 2020

Hammer Price:
£380

Pair: Captain R. Carr, 13th Middlesex (Queen’s Westminster) Volunteer Rifles and City of London Imperial Volunteers, late 20th Middlesex Volunteer Rifles

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. R. Carr. C.I.V.); City of London Imperial Volunteers for South Africa 1899-1900 Medallion, 76mm, bronze, the obverse featuring a seated female figure with sword, presenting the freedom of the city to a uniformed man in the City Imperial Volunteers, the reverse featuring the radiant sun of the British Empire shining behind a hill which is surmounted by a tall staff flying the Union Flag and C.I.V. Flag, guarded by two guns, the edge inscribed in large capitals ‘R. Carr. Lieut. C.I.V.’ nearly extremely fine (2) £400-£500

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, July 1975.

Reginald Carr was born in Beckenham, Kent, in July 1869, and enrolled as a Private in the 20th Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps in 1888. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant the 13th Middlesex (Queen’s Westminster) Volunteer Rifles on 22 August 1891. Advanced Lieutenant on 19 May 1894 and Captain on 1 December 1897, he served in South Africa from July 1900 as a Lieutenant in the reinforcement draft of the City of London Imperial Volunteers, joining “F” Company in the Infantry Battalion. The City Press on 14 July 1900, said of him ‘joined stock exchange ten years ago and is now a member of A. P, Carr & Sons, stock jobbers of Warneford Court.’

Carr’s two brothers, Claude Ambrose Carr (D3) and Sidney Carr (301), also served in the same volunteer unit and in South Africa with the C.I.V., the latter being invalided home, dying on 6 January 1901. Reginald Carr died in Bromley, Kent on 22 September 1914.