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Three: Private C. H. Mayhew, 18th Middlesex (Paddington) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Pte. C. H. Mayhew); British War and Victory Medals (033598 Pte. C. H. Mayhew A.O.C.) very fine (3) £120-£160
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.
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Charles Henry Mayhew was born in Wandsworth, Surrey in 1877. A warehouseman by occupation, he joined the Paddington Rifles on 30 January 1896 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with “I” Company of the Infantry Battalion, City Imperial Volunteers. He subsequently served during the Great War in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and was discharged Class Z Reserve on 16 October 1919.
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