The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, third and fourth clasps both tailor’s copies, with fourth clasp loose on riband (27 Pte. T. Jones, C.I.V.) top right hand corner of CC clasp somewhat damaged, edge bruise, very fine £70-£90

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

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Theodore Jones was born in St. Phillips, Gloucestershire in 1873. A stock exchange broker by profession, he joined the Artists Rifles on 8 November 1895 and served with their City Imperial Volunteers detachment in South Africa in the Infantry Battalion.

Following the outbreak of the Great War Jones attested for the 22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers on 22 September 1914, stating his prior service: ‘Artists Volunteers. 7 years then C.I.V. attached A.S.C. Transport, Commission 1st Middlesex Royal Engineers Volunteers Battalion., 13 years T of E March 1904.’

He served in the ranks on the Western Front from 16 November 1915 to 22 December 1916, before being discharged, sick, aggravated by active service, from 2nd Northern General Hospital, Leeds on 11 June 1917, no longer physically fit for war service. He was awarded a Silver War Badge.