The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Four: Private F. Gossett, 16th Middlesex (London Irish) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Imperial Yeomanry and 18th (County of London) Battalion (London Irish Rifles), London Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between third and fourth clasps (135 Pte. F. Gossett, C.I.V.) additionally engraved ‘3rd Batt. S.S.’; 1914-15 Star (2141 Pte. F. Gossett. 18-Lond.R.); British War and Victory Medals (2141 Pte. F. Gosset [sic]. 18-Lond.R.) light contact marks, very fine and better (4) £140-£180

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

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Frank Gossett joined the 16th Middlesex (London Irish) Volunteers in 1898 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with the City Imperial Volunteers. He immediately re-enlisted, seeing service in the 71st (Sharpshooters) Company, 18th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, Service no. 34547, from 12 March 1901 until 6 January 1902, his papers stating that he was ‘tattooed with coat of arms of C.I.V. on left forearm.’ His Imperial Yeomanry service additionally qualified him for the South Africa 1901 clasp to his Q.S.A., the medal roll spelling his name ‘Gosset’.

Following the outbreak of the Great War, Gossett served with the 18th Battalion, London Regiment on the Western Front from 9 March 1915.

Sold together with the recipient’s Freedom of the City London parchment certificate.