The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Five: Private E. Tasker, 18th Middlesex (Paddington) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Company Quarter Master Sergeant and Regimental Sergeant Major, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (395 Pte. E. Tasker, C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star (3-5958 C.Q.M. Sjt. E. Tasker. D. of Corn: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (5958 A.W.O. Cl. 1. E. Tasker. D.C.L.I.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (3-5958 C.Q.M Sjt. - R.S Mjr. - E. Tasker 7/D. of Corn: L.I.) nearly very fine and better (5) £240-£280

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

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Ernest Tasker joined the Paddington Rifles on 12 January 1897 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with “A” Company of the Infantry Battalion, City Imperial Volunteers.

Tasker subsequently served during the Great War with the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry Special Reserve on the Western Front from 23 July 1915, reaching the rank of Acting Warrant Officer Class I, and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (London Gazette 3 June 1919). He also later served with the Corps of Military Accountants.