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Sold on 20 August 2020

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The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Jack Webb

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№ 621

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20 August 2020

Hammer Price:
£380

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, Belfast (852 Pte. A. Jay, C.I.V.) mounted from contemporary top silver brooch bar, and housed in a contemporary fitted case, extremely fine £160-£200

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

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Alfred Jay, an ironmonger, enlisted into the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment, on 8 November 1889 and served with their 23 man detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with No. 2 Company, Mounted Infantry, City Imperial Volunteers. A note on the original list states of him ‘unfit on account of flat foot, but fit for mounted duty.’

Note: All C.I.V. recipients of the Belfast clasp served in No. 2 Company of the Mounted Infantry.