The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Nigeria 1918 (T. J. Waters.) mounted on contemporary brooch with gold pin in a Spink & Son medal case with companion mounted miniature medal, extremely fine £400-£500

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

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Thomas Joseph Waters, [late] Captain, Royal Engineers, Deputy Surveyor-General, Nigeria; on survey duty in area at the outbreak; [engaged in] preparation of route maps & reports for subsequent operations near Awba; under fire at Owowo Station & on breakdown train when derailed by rebels near Wasimi (Medal Roll refers).

Appointed Temporary Captain on 20 July 1916, and in September 1916 was Staff Captain for Railway Transport in the Quartermaster-General’s Department. Medal index card shows him as not entitled to any W.W.I medals, but confirms award of A.G.S. for ‘Nigeria 1918’, medal issued 21 October 1926.

Sold with copied despatches, recommendations, medal rolls, and Waters’ own submitted account of the Abeokuta Rising.