The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, Belfast (1523 T. Cadell, C.I.V.) nearly extremely fine £180-£220

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

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Provenance: Lovell Collection, Sotheby’s, November 1978.

Thomas Cadell, who was born in India on 31 August 1876, the youngest son of Colonel T. Cadell, V.C., C.B., Bengal Artillery, of Cockenzie House, Prestonpans (a friend of Lord Roberts during the Indian Mutiny), and was educated at Haileybury College. Adopting the profession of Chartered Accountant, he practised in Edinburgh and, as a volunteer with the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles, he served in South Africa during the Boer War with their City Imperial Volunteers detachment in No. 2 Mounted Infantry Company, one of 12 men from his volunteer unit to do so.

Following the return of the C.I.V. to England, Cadell was commissioned Second Lieutenant into the King’s Own Scottish Borderers on 13 October 1900, nominated by Lord Roberts himself, but the appointment was cancelled at Cadell’s own request shortly afterwards. When the Boer War was over he remained in Johannesburg and served for a time in the Repatriation Department and afterwards held the post of Secretary to the Anglo-French Corporation. He also served as Captain of “A” Company in the Transvaal Scottish Volunteer Regiment.

Cadell took his own life at Johannesburg on 18 October 1909 over private debts. Among the pall bearers at his funeral was his cousin P. C. Dalmahoy, D.S.O., also of the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles and the C.I.V.