The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (D100 Pte. T. Sweetingham, C.I.V.) nearly extremely fine, together with a display of 1st Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteers Insignia relating to the recipient, comprising an other ranks 1878 pattern white metal helmet plate, a pair of ‘White Tower’ collar badges, white metal chin chain with rosette supporters, quadrant only from the helmet and four QVC white metal Royal Arms pattern buttons. He volunteered and was accepted into the City Imperial Volunteers, correspondingly there is one brass City Imperial Volunteers button and a cut down HM silver swagger stick, also an ‘Old Head’ Victorian shilling adopted for use as a watch chain fob, the insignia all housed in a glazed display frame, the QSA nearly extremely fine, the insignia in overall good condition (lot) £240-£280

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

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Thomas Sweetingham, born in Marylebone, Middlesex in 1880 was a printer’s apprentice by occupation. Already a volunteer with the the 1st Tower Hamlets Rifles, he served during the Boer War with their detachment of eleven men in the draft of reinforcements for the City Imperial Volunteers, sailing for South Africa in July 1900. He returned safely from South Africa but died of epilepsy on 9 June 1902.