The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (91 Pte. E. A. W. Milroy, C.I.V.) nearly 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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Edward Andrew Wallace Milroy was born in Marylebone, Middlesex on 6 May 1873, the son of Andrew Wallace Milroy, Rector of Newnham and Maple Durwell. A barrister by profession, he joined the 14th Middlesex (Inns of Court) Rifle Volunteers on 22 March 1897, after 4 years’ service in another corps, and served in South Africa during the Boer War with their detachment in No. 2 Mounted Infantry Company, City Imperial Volunteers. He died in St. Albans, Hertfordshire in December 1966, aged 93.