Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (790 Pte. T. K. Mellor, C.I.V.) edge bruising, nearly 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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Thompson Kirk Mellor was born at Sialkot, Bengal Presidency, India on 26 December 1876, the son of William Mellor, a Corporal in the 9th Lancers, and his wife Ellen. Aged 4 he was living with his cousin and widowed aunt in Manchester and aged 14 living with step parents George and Ellen Lunn in Kingston on Thames, Surrey.

An upholsterer by trade, Mellor enlisted into the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, East Surrey Regiment on 28 January 1895 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War in the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers.