The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (1211 Cpl. L. J. A. Phillips, C.I.V.) 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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Lionel James Albert Phillips was born in Margate, Kent in 1875. Initially a clerk by occupation, he joined the 2nd (South) Middlesex Rifle Volunteers on 13 April 1892 before serving in South Africa as a Corporal of “C” Company, Infantry Battalion, City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War. The City Press, 18 July 1900, reported that Phillips had ‘recently returned, sick’. Between 1901 and 1911 he worked as a Hydraulic Engineers Traveller and as the Secretary of an Engineering Company. He died in London in 1912.