The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (D89 Pte. A. Wallace, C.I.V.) good very fine £100-£140

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

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Alexander Wallace was born in Highbury, Middlesex in 1879. A printer by occupation, he enlisted into the 21st Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps (the Finsbury Rifles) and served with their detachment in the draft of reinforcements to the Infantry Battalion, City Imperial Volunteers in South Africa during the Boer War. Following the disbandment of the C.I.V., he re-enlisted at Penton Street, London on 25 March 1901 into the 97th (Metropolitan Mounted Rifles) Company, 24th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, serving again in South Africa from 12 April until 13 August 1901, which period of service was rewarded with the addition of the South Africa 1901 clasp to his Q.S.A. He was discharged on 15 August 1901, ‘N.L.E.S.’ (no longer an effective soldier).