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20 August 2020

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The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

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№ 542

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20 August 2020

Hammer Price:
£950

Pair: Lance-Corporal H. W. Millidge, 15th Middlesex (Customs and Docks) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (436 Pte. H. W. Millidge, C.I.V.); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (4943 L. Cpl. H. W. Millidge. 15/Middx: V.R.C.); together with a presentation decorated silver cigarette case, hallmarks for London 1896, the front centrally engraved ‘Presented to Trooper H. W. Millidge by the townspeople of Grays on his return home from active service in South Africa as a C.I.V. 7th Nov. 1900’, good very fine (3) £200-£240

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

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Harold William Millidge, a cooper by occupation, joined the 15th Middlesex R.V. in 1891 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with the City Imperial Volunteers. He served together with his brother, H. A. Millidge, in the volunteers and in the C.I.V.

An article in the
Daily Telegraph of 22 September 1965 describing a Boer War veterans reunion event at the Guildhall, London, with Millidge pictured, stated the following ‘Doyen of the gathering was Mr. Harold Millidge, 91, of Newbury Park, Essex, who retains his Victorian quiff.’