The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal F. C. Austin, 20th Middlesex (Artists) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Major, North Staffordshire Regiment, who was wounded during the Great War

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (11 Cpl. F. C. Austin, C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star (Capt: F. C. Austin. N. Staff: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major F. C. Austin.) good very fine (4) £240-£280

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

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Francis Clifford Austin was born in Lewisham, Kent in 1876. He joined the Artists Rifle on 7 November 1893 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with “F” Company of the Infantry Battalion, City Imperial Volunteers.

After the outbreak of the Great War Austin was commissioned into the 9th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, advanced Temporary Captain on 21 November 1914 and served with his Battalion on the Western Front from 31 July 1915. Transferring to the 3rd Battalion, he was promoted Temporary Major on 21 April 1917, the same year he was admitted to Queen Alexandra’s Military Hospital at Millbank with Pyrexia of unknown origin. His pension card records ‘disability: gun shot wound to the right foot.’

Sold together with the recipient’s Freedom of the City of London parchment certificate, mounted in a glazed display frame.