A Selection of Presentation Fire Brigade Medals awarded to Superintendent E. Huxtable, Toowong Volunteer Fire Brigade, Queensland, who served with the Queensland Mounted Infantry in South Africa during the Boer War
Comprising two Best Attendance Prize Medals, 33mm, silver, the reverses engraved ‘Toowong V.F.B. Presented to Superintendent E, Huxtable for Best Attendance’ and the years ‘1895-96’ and ‘1896-97’ respectively; A Sports Prize Medal, 33mm, silver, the reverse engraved ‘May Day Sports 1896. Presented by Members to Super. E. Huxtable’; a Toowong Volunteer Fire Brigade Life Member’s Medal, 35mm, silver, the obverse engraved ‘T.V.F.B. Life Member E. Huxtable’; and a Boer War Presentation Medal, 31mm, silver (hallmarks for Birmingham 1899), the reverse engraved ‘Presented by United V.F.B. Brisbane to Trooper E. Huxtable on his departure to S. Africa, 26.2.1900’; together with the West Buckland Devon County School Fortescue Prize Medal awarded to the recipient’s son, 38mm, silver (S. E. Huxtable), generally good very fine (6) £300-£400

Edwin Huxtable, a Superintendent with the Toowong Volunteer Fire Brigade, served as 227 Sergeant with the 3rd Battalion, Queensland Mounted Infantry in South Africa during the Boer War.

Sydney Edwin Huxtable was born in South Molton, Devon, in 1905, the eldest son of Edwin Huxtable, and was educated at West Buckland School; St. Luke’s College, Exeter; and King’s College, London. A prominent artist, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1858-66, and died in Carshalton, Surrey, in 1990.