The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Militia L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3629 Sjt: B. J. Moss. Middx: Regt. Mil.) number partially double-struck, nearly extremely fine £240-£280

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

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Provenance: Cross Collection, J. B. Hayward, January 1973.

B. J. Moss was born in 1843 and attested for the 8th Foot at Reading on 23 April 1868. He served with the 2nd Battalion in Afghanistan during the Second Afghan War (entitled to Medal with claps Peiwar Khotal), before transferring to the Middlesex Regiment, and served with the 6th (Militia) Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War. He was awarded his Militia Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in August 1905, one of only 5 Militia L.S. & G.C. Medals awarded to the Middlesex Regiment.

Note: Moss’s complete group of medals, including a Coronation 1911 Medal, is recorded as being held by the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. It is not known whether or not a duplicate/ replacement Militia L.S. & G.C. was issued, but the medal in this lot appears entirely as issued, with the naming consistent with the style in use in 1905.