The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (843 Pte. A. H. Prior, C.I.V.) with top silver brooch bar, minor edge bruise, worn in parts, nearly very 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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Alfred Henry Prior was born around 1875, and enlisted into the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment, on 9 March 1898. He served in South Africa during the Boer War with their City Imperial Volunteers detachment in the Infantry Battalion. The City Press, 30 June 1900, printed an extract from one of Prior’s letters from South Africa in which he states, ‘I have been in six battles without a scratch.’