The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Five: Private S. A. C. Farrell, 2nd (South) Middlesex Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Captain, Durham Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (1208 Pte. S. A. Farrell, C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. S. A. C. Farrell. Durh: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. S. A. C. Farrell.); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (7570 C.Sjt: S. A. C. Farrell. 2/(South.) Middx: V.R.C.) mounted as worn, very fine or better (5) £300-£400

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

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Sidney Arthur Chamberlayne Farrell was born in Malta on 10 March 1872, the son of Major-General Henry Chamberlayne Farrell, Royal Artillery. A bank clerk by occupation, he joined the 2nd (South) Middlesex Rifle Volunteers in 1891 and served in South Africa with the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War. Farrell served 16 years in the 2nd (South) Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps, receiving his Volunteer Force Long Service Medal in the rank of Colour Sergeant before transferring as Sergeant to the Prince of Wales’ Own Civil Service Rifles, 1908-10.

Following the outbreak of the Great War, Farrell was commissioned Temporary Captain in the 17th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry on 22 December 1914 (London Gazette 13 January 1915) and served in Gallipoli from 16 June 1915. On 16 August 1915, he was transferred to the General List and appointed Assistant Military Landing Officer, continuing in this appointment in Salonika, February 1917. Hospitalised with sandfly fever in August 1917, he recovered to serve in the Military Dock Police in 1919. Farrell’s Medal Index Card also confirms service as Captain of 969th Area Employment Company, Labour Corps in Salonika. He transferred back from the General List to the Durham Light Infantry, 12 May 1919, and was demobilised as a Captain on 18 September 1919.