The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, Belfast (87 Cpl. H. C. Crawhall, C.I.V.) scratches to obverse field, edge bruise, otherwise very fine £140-£180

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

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Hugh Capper Crawhall was born at Nun Monkton, Yorkshire in 1875, the son of the Rev. Septimus Isaac Crawhall, vicar of Stratton St. Margaret. Admitted into the Society of Telegraph-Engineers and Electricians in June 1893, he was based in Victoria Street, S.W. London in 1896 and joined the 14th Middlesex (Inns of Court) Rifle Volunteers the same year. He served with their detachment in South Africa as a Lance-Corporal in No. 2 Company, Mounted Infantry, City Imperial Volunteers.

Crawhall is mentioned in the Record of the Mounted Infantry C.I.V. by Guillem Scott and McDonnell, in connection with an occasion on which he received a bounty of £60 from the Supply Officer in return for bringing in cattle. The same source also reveals him to have held the role of regimental barber.