Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (1070 Pte. S. C. Newson, C.I.V.) minor edge bruising, 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: Baldwin’s, August 1965.

Sydney Charles Newson was born at West Ham, Essex in October 1879. A plumber by occupation, he enlisted into the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment on 26 August 1897 and served with their 28 man City Imperial Volunteers detachment in South Africa during the Boer War in the Infantry Battalion.