The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (1074 Pte. T. D. M. Spicer, C.I.V.) minor edge bruising, very fine £100-£140

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

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Tom Spicer was born in Islington, London in 1880. A house decorator, he enlisted into the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment on 23 February 1898 and served in their 28 man City Imperial Volunteers detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with the Infantry Battalion. Following the return of the C.I.V. to England, and their disbandment, he attested on 1 February 1902 at Penton Street, London, for the Metropolitan Mounted Rifles, 24th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry and served in South Africa from 28 May 1902 until 22 October 1902. He is not found on the roll for the South Africa 1902 clasp to the Q.S.A., the qualification for which required service at the front before 31 May 1902.

Spicer was discharged, in the rank of Corporal, from the 170th Company, 38th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry on 29 October 1902, giving his intended place of residence as 38 Gunton Road, Clapton, Middlesex.