Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (1024 Pte. R. B. Goddard, C.I.V.) 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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Robert Bernard Goddard was born in Clapton, Middlesex in 1879. A traveller by occupation, he enlisted into the 21st Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps (the Finsbury Rifles) on 14 January 1896 and having been advanced to Sergeant in the Volunteers and qualified for his Ambulance Certificate, he served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War as a Private in the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers.

During the Great War, Goddard attested for the 5th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 6 December 1915 and was discharged on 15 December 1918, no longer physically fit for war service. He was awarded a Silver War Badge and died in Hackney, London in 1953.