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Auction: 23111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 152

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (13142 Pte. E. B. Webb. R.A.M.C.), bruising, very fine

Edward Benjamin Webb was born at St. Pauls, Aston, Birmingham in the summer of 1875, the son of Samuel and Martha Webb of Chester Street, Birmingham. Working as a Brass Cock Filer by 1891 he moved to Manchester, joining the Manchester Voluntary Company, Medical Staff Corps. Attesting for the Royal Army Medical Corps on 8 February 1900 he was deployed to South Africa on 24 February 1900.

Posted to No. 5 General Hospital and Hospital Ship at Cape Town, Webb was to remain in South Africa for over a year before returning to Britain on 13 August 1901. Here he was discharged at this own request on 13 17 August. Married at St. George’s Church, Hulme, Manchester in the winter of 1901 he returned to work- now as a Brass Finisher. Webb died in 1934 in South Manchester; sold together with copied research including service papers, census data and a list of R.A.M.C. hospitals in South Africa.

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£110

Starting price
£80