The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (609 Pte. J. W. Harris, C.I.V.) minor flaw to obverse field, otherwise good very fine £100-£140

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

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Provenance: J. B. Hayward, June 1968.

James Wells Harris was born at Rotherhithe, Surrey in 1874 and enlisted into the 4th Volunteer Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment on 3 February 1898. Noted as a marksman, he served with their 31 man detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers.

Harris was initiated into the Lion and Lamb Freemasonry Lodge on 7 December 1911, at which time his profession was listed as electrical engineer and his address as 107 Prince Regent’s Lane, Plaistow, London.