The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (879 Pte. J. Tyndale, C.I.V.) extremely fine £140-£180

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

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Provenance: Baldwin’s, June 1965.

John Morgan Tyndale was born on 11 December 1880, and attended Penton Grove School, Angel, from 5 January 1885, becoming a saddler by occupation. A volunteer with the 1st Tower Hamlets Rifles, he served with their detachment in South Africa with the City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War.

At the conclusion of his service in the C.I.V. Tyndale served again during the Boer War in the Provisional Transvaal Constabulary from 23 September 1900 to 22 October 1900, on which latter date he died of pneumonia at Pretoria. Following his death, £40 was paid by the C.I.V. to his father, John Temple Tyndale, a comedian residing at Cloth Fair, and a C.I.V. memorial plaque commemorating him was placed in St. Bartholomew-the-Great Church, Cloth Fair, City of London.