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Auction: 25111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 429

(x) Five: Warrant Officer Class 2 J. E. Webber, Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry, late Natal Rangers & South African Constabulary

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (B. 1443 Tpr. J. E. Webber. S.A.C.), unofficially re-engraved naming; Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Pte. J. E. Webber. Natal Rangers), unofficially re-engraved naming; 1914-15 Star (788 Sjt. J. E. Webber. W. Kent Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (788 W. O. Cl. 2. J. E. Webber. W. Kent. Yeo.), very fine (5)

J. E. Webber is confimed as having served in 'B' Division of the South African Constabulary during the Boer War, his Medal noted as having officially been lost in February 1911. He took a T.F.E.M. as per Army Order 101 of April 1914 and landed on Gallipoli with the 1/1st West Kent Yeomanry on 24 September 1915. Attached to the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, they were withdrawn to Mudros on 30 December.

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Sold for
£320

Starting price
£110