The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (553 Pte. J. T. Bailey, C.I.V.) minor edge nicks, good very fine £140-£180

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

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Joseph Tom Bailey was born at St. Pancras, London on 24 December 1875. A Post Office sorter, he enlisted into the 24th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers (Post Office Rifles) on 11 January 1897 and served in their seven man detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers. At the conclusion of his service in the C.I.V. he served again during the Boer War in the Provisional Transvaal Constabulary from 20 September 1900 to 29 December 1900. He died at Perranporth, Cornwall in 1941.