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20 August 2020

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The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

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№ 583

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20 August 2020

Hammer Price:
£150

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (D27 Pte. T. F. Deane, C.I.V.) edge bruising, nearly very fine £80-£120

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

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Provenance: Baldwin’s, May 1965.

Thomas Frederick Brookson Deane was born in Islington, London on 7 August 1879. A book binder by occupation, he enlisted into the 21st Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps (the Finsbury Rifles) on 24 May 1898 and was originally given number 1015 in the City Imperial Volunteers. He was later rejected, however, and did not sail with the initial force. The reason for his rejection is not known, but he did later embark for South Africa in July 1900 with the draft of reinforcements and served there in the Infantry Battalion of the C.I.V.

Deane subsequently served during the Great War, at least partially in Northern India, in the Royal Army Service Corps, advancing to the rank of Temporary Warrant Officer Class 1 and is entitled to the British War Medal. The United Grand Lodge of England Freemason membership register for Khyber Lodge in Peshawar records his initiation on 25 October 1917 and his profession at that time as ‘M.S.M. A.S.C.’

He is recorded in passenger lists as having sailed to Calcutta in 1921, stating his profession to be that of ‘engineer’ and his intended future country of permanent residence to be India. He died in Preston, Lancashire in 1947.