The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Three: Private F. Trickey, 5th (West) Middlesex Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later East Surrey Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, Belfast (163 Pte. F. Trickey, C.I.V.) latter part of surname unofficially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (20107 Pte. F. Trickey. E. Surr. R.) mounted as worn, very fine (3) £240-£280

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

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Frederick Trickey was born in Rockbeare, Devon in 1878. Leaving school at 15, he came to London and was apprenticed to Peter Evans, Brixton, later working for Marshall & Snelgrove. He served in South Africa with No. 2 Company, Mounted Infantry, City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War as part of the 5th (West Middlesex) Rifle Volunteers detachment and was slightly wounded at Stephanusdrai on 29 July 1900, receiving a seven clasp Q.S.A. medal (one of 3 officers and 19 other ranks to do so, all of whom were in No 2 Company, Mounted Infantry, the only unit of the C.I.V. at Belfast).

Trickey attested for the East Surrey Regiment on 10 December 1915, at which time he described himself as a farmer, living at Pigerells Farm, Hatfield Heath. Seeing service with the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, East Surrey Regiment, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Salonika, from 19 October 1916, he was hospitalised multiple times in 1917 and 1918. He transferred to No. 435 Agricultural Company, Labour Corps, with effect from November 1918, before being transferred to the Class Z reserve on 23 March 1919.