The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Pair: Driver H. Blacklin, Honourable Artillery Company and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Lieutenant, Canadian Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (1332 Drvr: H. Blacklin, C.I.V.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. H. Blacklin.) nearly extremely fine (2) £120-£160

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

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Henry Blacklin was born in Hammersmith, London in 1875. He joined the Honourable Artillery Company in January 1900, and served as a Driver with B Sub-division of the City Imperial Volunteers Battery in South Africa during the Boer War. Resigning from the H.A.C. in September 1901, he was employed the same year as an Auctioneer’s Clerk, whilst residing in Hammersmith. Commissioned Lieutenant into the Canadian Army Service Corps on 28 June 1915, he served during the Great War with No. 19 Company, Military District No. 11, and is shown as similarly employed in the October 1918 Army List.