The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal, unofficial rivets between third and fourth clasps (229 Pte. C. J. Redmond, C.I.V.) good very fine £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 James Redmond was born in Westminster in 1877. A wood carver by occupation, he enlisted into the 19th Middlesex (Bloomsbury Rifles) on 8 February 1898 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with No. 2 Company, Mounted Infantry, City Imperial Volunteers. In ‘Record of the Mounted Infantry’ by Guillem Scott and Mcdonnell he is noted as having ‘served temporarily with Brabant’s Colonial Division’.

Redmond, in a letter to a Mr Bell, printed in the City Press, 8 September 1900, states ‘we were selected [No. 2 Coy. M.I.] to escort Cronje’s carriage.’

Following the outbreak of the Great War, Redmond attested in 1915 to serve in the Machine Gun Corps. Advancing to Sergeant, he was demobilised, Class Z, on 18 May 1919 and was awarded the British War and Victory Medals.

Sold together with the recipient’s Freedom of the City of London parchment certificate, the reverse showing signs of having at some point been mounted.