The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (1007 Pte. A. E. Hartridge, C.I.V.) extremely 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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Provenance: J. B. Hayward, June 1972.

Albert Edward Hartridge was born in Islington in 1877. A pattern-card maker by occupation, he enlisted into the 21st Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps (the Finsbury Rifles) on 25 February 1896 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War in the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers. He died in Islington in 1903.