The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private H. H. Dorrington,1st Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteer Brigade and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Sergeant, London Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 27 April 1915

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (D92 Pte. H. H. Dorrington, C.I.V.); British War Medal 1914-20 (58 Sjt. H. H. Dorrington. 4-Lond. R.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £120-£160

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

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Henry Dorrington was born in Bethnal Green, London on 17 April 1879. A volunteer with the 1st Tower Hamlets Rifles, he served with their eleven man detachment in the draft of reinforcements for the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers, sailing for South Africa in July 1900.

During the Great War, Dorrington served as a Sergeant with the 1/4th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), on the Western Front from 6 January 1915. He was killed in action on 27 April 1915, and having no known grave is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.