Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (523 Sgt. W. H. Shaw, C.I.V.) nearly extremely fine £200-£240

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

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William Harold Shaw, a leather merchant, enlisted into the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment, on 4 December 1894. He served with their 17 man detachment in South Africa during the Boer War in the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers. Slightly wounded at Florida on 29 May 1900, he also had extracts from two of his letters home, regarding ‘railway defence’ and a ‘football match’ published in the City Press on 24 March 1900 and 23 May 1900 respectively.

Sold together with the recipient’s Freedom of the City of London Certificate, this contained within an attractive hand-illuminated mount, and housed in a glazed display frame.