The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Three: Private C. H. Prince, 4th Volunteer Battalion East Surrey Regiment and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Norfolk Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (913. Pte. C. H. Prince, C.I.V.); British War and Victory Medals (265594 Pte. C. H Prince. Norf. R.) mounted as worn, VM officially re-impressed, good very fine (3) £120-£160

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

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Charles Henry Prince was born in Westminster in October 1877. A clerk by occupation, he enlisted into the 4th Volunteer Battalion, East Surrey Regiment on 28 November 1894 and served with their 24 man detachment in South Africa during the Boer War in the Infantry Battalion, City Imperial Volunteers.

During the Great War Prince attested for the Norfolk Regiment, under the Derby Scheme, on 3 December 1915, serving with the 1st Battalion before transferring to the Northumberland Fusiliers and serving with the 18th, 20th, 18th and 14th Battalions.