The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private G. W. Kerr, 20th Middlesex (Artists) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (38 Pte. G. W. Kerr, C.I.V.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Graham W. Kerr); together with a silver presentation cigarette case, hallmarks for Birmingham 1899, 80mm x 90mm, the front with centrally mounted 1899 Queen’s shilling, and engraved ‘City of London Imperial Volunteers, pro cristo et patria dulce periculum, Graham W. Kerr, 11th January 1900’; the reverse engraved ‘For use in South Africa from his friends at Staines wishing him God speed.’ good very fine (2) £300-£400

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

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Graham William Kerr was born in Staines, Middlesex in 1877. A foreign exchange broker by occupation, he enlisted into the Artists Rifles on 3 November 1896 and served in South Africa during the Boer War with their City Imperial Volunteers detachment.

He was most likely the Graham William Kerr who was commissioned Second Lieutenant into the Royal Garrison Artillery, Special Reserve of Officers on 1 September 1916, and was advanced Lieutenant on 1 March 1918.

Sold together with the recipient’s Freedom of the City of London parchment certificate, this mounted in a glazed display frame.