The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (237 Pte. L. J. Lawrence, C.I.V.) 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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Lawrence John Lawrence was born in Marylebone, London in 1876. An electrical engineer by occupation, he joined the 19th Middlesex (Bloomsbury Rifles) in 1897 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War as a Signaller with “F” Company in the Infantry Battalion, City Imperial Volunteers.

Lawrence was invalided home from South Africa in August 1900, an article in the City Press, 22 August 1900, stating that he had ‘Returned sick in the last few days on Canada or Gascoigne.’ He was discharged on 20 November 1900 in consequence of being found medically unfit for further service.

Lawrence later went on to found Lawrence John Lawrence & Co., a chain of electrical retail shops.