The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Pair: Major A. C. Pine, 20th Middlesex (Artists) Rifle Volunteers, later Royal West Kent Regiment (Militia)

Queen’s Mediterranean 1899-1902 (Major A. C. Pine, R.W. Kent Rgt:); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, V.R. (Lt. A. C. Pine. 20th. Middx. (Artists) R.V.) engraved naming, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (2) £400-£500

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

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Arthur Chilley Pine is mentioned in Memories of the Artists Rifles by Colonel H. A. R. May as being a Colour-Sergeant in 1882, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 13 April 1887. He was promoted Lieutenant on 1 January 1890, and Captain in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, on 29 April 1899. He served during the Boer War, guarding Boer prisoners of War in the Mediterranean, and was promoted Honorary Major on 2 November 1901. He retired from the Militia in 1904.