The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (233 Pte. H. Romer, C.I.V.) very fine £100-£140

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

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Horace Guernard Romer was born in Camberwell in 1880. He joined the 19th Middlesex (Bloomsbury Rifles) on 23 March 1898 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with the Infantry Battalion, City Imperial Volunteers. His brother, Albert Romer, also served with him in both the Volunteers and the C.I.V.

Romer further served in South Africa with the 173rd Company, 39th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry (number 40313) but was discharged as ‘not likely to become an efficient Yeoman’.

Romer served during the Great War as a Gunner in the Royal Artillery and was awarded the British War and Victory Medals.
He died at Great Yarmouth in 1953, in consequence of which his widow applied for help from the Old Comrades Association Trust in 1976 and 1977. She was the last recipient of funds from the trust.