The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (389 Pte. A. F. Cleave, C.I.V.) edge bruise, 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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Alfred Frederick Cleave was born in St. Pancras, London in 1880. A mirror-silverer by occupation, he joined the Paddington Rifles on 4 January 1898 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War in “D” Company of the Infantry Battalion, City Imperial Volunteers. He was wounded on 12 June 1900 at Diamond Hill and died of enteric fever at Springfontein on 22 August 1900. £100 was paid from the C.I.V. fund to his next of kin (A. Cleave, 22 Milton Street, St. Pancras) and his C.I.V. memorial was placed in the doorway of St. Pancras Parish Church.