The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Four: Private J. Fram, 21st Middlesex (Finsbury) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Middlesex Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (992 Pte. J. Fram. C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star (663. L.Cpl. J. Fram. Midd’x R.); British War and Victory Medals (663 Pte. J. Fram. Midd’x R.) mounted as worn, edge bruise to first, light pitting, otherwise good very fine (4) £160-£200

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

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Joseph Fram was born in York on 6 October 1875. He joined the 21st Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps (the Finsbury Rifles) in 1898 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War in the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers. Upon his return from South Africa he and Albert A. E. Marin, also of the Finsbury Rifles and C.I.V, boarded at 107 Torriano Avenue, Camden Town, the residence of a James and Elizabeth Fram, continuing in his occupation of Furrier’s Clerk.
He was awarded the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal with the Middlesex Regiment, and served with the Middlesex Regiment and latterly the Labour Corps during the Great War.