The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Three: Private F. C. Carter, Grenadier Guards, Batman to Captain E. H. Trotter, Grenadier Guards, who served as Staff Captain of the City of London Imperial Volunteers Mounted Infantry in South Africa during the Boer War

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (6590 Pte: F. Carter. 1/Gren: Gds.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6590 Pte. F. C. Carter, Grenadier Gds.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (Pte. F. Carter. Gren. Gds.) regimentally impressed naming, scratch to obverse field of first, otherwise good very fine (3) £700-£900

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

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Provenance: Upfill-Brown Collection, Buckland, Dix & Wood, December 1991.

Frederick Carter attested for the Grenadier Guards on 11 June 1897 aged 18 years. He served on the Nile Expedition of 1898 and was slightly wounded in the leg. In South Africa, he served initially with the C.I.V., No. 1552, earning the first four clasps to his Queen's Medal in that unit. He then transferred back to the Grenadier Guards, Mounted Infantry, for the remainder of the war, earning the clasps South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902. Carter was batman or private servant to Major Trotter, Grenadier Guards in the Sudan 1898, in the C.I.V. (No. 1. Mounted Infantry Company) and later also in South Africa with the Grenadier Guards.

Carter was discharged on 10 September 1909. Major Trotter was subsequently killed in the Great War.

Sold with a silver open-faced presentation Pocket Watch, by Hamilton & Inches, Edinburgh, with black Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds dial, the outer case engraved ‘No. 6590 Private F. Carter Grenadier Guards, from Captain E. H. Trotter, D.S.O.’, the inside back plate engraved ‘ - .No. 3 Coy. 1st. Bn. Gren. Gds. 1898 Egypt. Khartoum. - .C.I.V. 1900 South Africa. Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill. - .No 1 Coy. Guards M.I. South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902. -’, the original inside glazed cover much scratched, otherwise in good condition and apparently in working order