The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

A Boer War D.C.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant W. J. Park, 1st Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteer Brigade and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Army Ordnance Corps

Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (888 Serjt: W. J. Park. C.I.V.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Wittebergen, Diamond Hill (888 Sgt. W. J. Park, C.I.V.); British War and Victory Medals (019822 Pte. W. J. Park. A.O.C.) lacquered, good very fine (4) £2,000-£2,400

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

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Provenance: A. A. Upfill-Brown Collection, December 1991

D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901.

One of only 14 Distinguished Conduct Medals awarded to the City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War.

William John Park was born at St. George in the East, London on 10 December 1877. A leather cutter by occupation, he enlisted into the 1st Tower Hamlets Rifles in 1896 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War as the senior volunteer N.C.O. - under Sergeant Stevens, Royal Artillery - in the Machine Gun Section of the Mounted Infantry, City Imperial Volunteers. For his services during the Boer War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901) and awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

Park later saw service in the Army Ordnance Corps during the Great War.