The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. S. Thomas, 21st Middlesex (Finsbury) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, and City of London Police

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (1006 Pte. W. S. Thomas. C.I.V.); Coronation 1902, City of London Police, bronze (P.C., W. S. Thomas.); Coronation 1911, City of London Police (P.C., W. S. Thomas.) light contact marks, polished and worn, generally good fine and better (3) £200-£240

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

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Walter Sidney Thomas was born in Stepney in 1875. He enlisted into the 21st Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps (the Finsbury Rifles) on 12 November 1895 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War in the Infantry Battalion, City Imperial Volunteers. A Police Constable for the City of London Corporation by career, he attested during the Great War on 16 April 1915 for service with the Army Service Corps, (Mechanical Transport). Discharged, no longer physically fit for war service, on 22 December 1916, he was awarded a Silver War Badge. He died in Tottenham, Middlesex, in 1956.