The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Nine: Warrant Officer Class II R. I. Furman, Middlesex Regiment, later a Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (7373 L.Corpl: R. H. Furman. Midd’x. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (L-7373 T.W.O. Cl.I. R. I. Furman. Midd’x. R.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (A.W.O. Cl.1. R. I. Furman, Middx. R.); Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (L-7373 C.S. Mjr: R. I. Furman. Midd’x R.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (6188345 W.O. Cl.2. R. I. Furman. Midd’x. R) mounted court-style, polished and worn, generally fine and better (9) £600-£800

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

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Robert Isaac Furman was born in 1883 and attested for the Middlesex Regiment in 1901. He served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the latter stages of the Boer War, and with the 1st/9th Battalion during the Great War in Egypt, France, and India. He saw further service during the Third Afghan War on attachment to the 25th Battalion, London Regiment- although no Middlesex Battalion was engaged at strength in the Third Afghan War, Furman was part of a detachment of men from the 9th and 10th Battalions that served during the campaign on the strength of units. He was discharged in 1922, after 21 years’ service.

Furman spent the next three years working at the General Post Office. He was appointed a Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London on 26 July 1926, and served there until his retirement on 30 January 1953 (and so just missed out by a few months on being awarded a 1953 Coronation Medal), after over 47 years’ service. He was awarded his Meritorious Service Medal per Army Order 68 of 1946, and died in Folkestone, Kent, on 13 December 1959.

Sold with a photographic image of the recipient.