The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Four: Private C. W. Messer, 20th Middlesex (Artists) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Major, Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (D64 Pte. C. W. Messer, C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. C. W. Messer, A.O.D.); British War and Victory Medals (Major C. W. Messer) good very fine (4) £240-£280

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

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Cecil Walter Messer was born in Camberwell in 1879 and served with the Artists Rifles City Imperial Volunteers detachment in South Africa during the Boer War in the Infantry Battalion.

Following the outbreak of the Great War Messer was commissioned Temporary Lieutenant in the Army Ordnance Department on 28 December 1914, and served with them on the Western Front from 25 December 1915. Advancing to Acting Major in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, he relinquished his commission on completion of service on 20 April 1920 and retained the rank of Major.

Sold together with a file of original documents relating to the 20th Middlesex (Artists) Rifle Volunteers including an original copy of The London Argus, 7 April 1900; a small quantity of dinner and concert invitations; and an illustrated programme for a ‘Special Battalion Smoking Concert to welcome home the Artist’s Contingent and their Comrades in F Co. C.I.V.’, complete with cover.