The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Four: Private F. G. Maunde-Thompson, 20th Middlesex (Artists) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Major, Royal Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Lieut. F. G. Maunde-Thompson. R.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut: F. G. Maunde-Thompson. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Major F. G. Maunde-Thompson.) contact marks, polished, very fine (4) £300-£400

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

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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 1998.

Francis George Maunde-Thompson was born on 10 May 1877, the son of Sir Edward Maunde-Thompson, Director and Chief Librarian of the British Museum. Educated for a time at Rugby School, he joined the Artists Rifles on 2 November 1897 and, while still a University Candidate, served in the ranks with their City Imperial Volunteers detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with the Infantry Battalion. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in May 1900, serving throughout the remainder of his career in the artillery. Whilst in South Africa he took part in operations in the Orange Free State including the action at Zand River, and operations in the Transvaal, May and June 1900, including the actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill.

Seconded to the Ordnance Factories in 1906, from 12 September 1912 to the beginning of the Great War Maunde-Thompson was an instructor at the Ordnance College at Woolwich. During the Great War, as a Major, he served on the Western Front during July 1916 and again from 8 May to 9 June 1917. He retired from the Army on 10 March 1923, after 23 years’ service.

Sold together with copied research, including various documents relating to the recipient’s father.