The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Four: Private W. J. Parsons, 20th Middlesex (Artists) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Captain, Middlesex Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (42 Pte. W. J. Parsons, C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. W. J. Parsons Midd’x. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. W. J. Parsons) good very fine (4) £180-£220

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

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Walter James Parsons enlisted into the Artists Rifles on 1 November 1894 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with No. 2 Company, Mounted Infantry, City Imperial Volunteers. He was discharged from the Artists Rifles on 30 April 1901.

Following the outbreak of the Great War Parsons was commissioned Lieutenant from the Special Reserve into the 12th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment on 19 September 1914, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 July 1915 to 28 September 1916. He was promoted Captain on 1 January 1917.

Sold together with the recipient’s Freedom of the City of London parchment certificate and ‘Rules for the Conduct of Life’, a booklet which accompanied the Freedom of the City; and the recipient’s Discharge Certificate.