The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (869 Pte. T. Dyer. C.I.V.) extremely fine £120-£160

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

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Thomas Dyer was born on 12 June 1877. A glass beveller for Parr Bros., Great Eastern Street, London, he enlisted into the 1st Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteers in 1896 and served with their detachment in South Africa with the No. 2 Mounted Infantry Company of the City Imperial Volunteers. Having earlier served as an escort to the captured Boer General, Cronje, he died of enteric fever at Heilbron on 3 June 1900. £50 was paid to both his mother and wife from the C.I.V. Fund and his C.I.V. memorial was placed in St. Thomas’ Church, Baroness Road, Bethnal Green - the Church was subsequently bombed during the Second World War and demolished.