Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (803 Pte. E. A. Young, C.I.V.) edge nicks, good very fine £140-£180

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

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Provenance: J. B. Hayward, June 1974.

Ernest Albert Young was born at Great Clacton, Essex in 1878. He enlisted into the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment on 20 April 1896 and served in South Africa during the Boer War with their City Imperial Volunteers detachment in the Infantry Battalion, dying of enteric fever at Pretoria on 22 June 1900.

£100 was paid by the C.I.V. fund to his mother, Mrs Ellen Young of Great Clacton, and his C.I.V. memorial was erected in St. John’s Church, Great Clacton.