The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sergeant C. Green, 1st Volunteer Battalion Essex Regiment and City of London Imperial Volunteers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (1078 Pte. C. Green. C.I.V.) unofficial re-engraved naming; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R., with Second Award Bar (343 Sjt. C. Green. 4/Essex Regt.) pawn-broker’s mark to QSA, very fine (2) £100-£140

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

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Charles Green was born around 1876. A painter by occupation, he enlisted into the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment on 15 July 1896 and served with their City Imperial Volunteers detachment in South Africa during the Boer War.

The City Press on 19 May 1900 printed extracts from a letter by Green in which he comments on the death of Private H. A. Miller of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment. A victim of dysentery, Miller passed away at Orange River Hospital on 11 March 1900.

Transferring in 1908 to his unit’s successor, the 4th Battalion Essex Regiment (Territorial Force), Green’s Territorial Force Efficiency Medal was awarded per Army Order 304 of 1 December 1908. Essex Units in the Great War by Burrows (1929) records him to have been serving as a Cook Sergeant in the 4th Battalion in 1914 and he continued serving after the war, the Second Award Bar to his T.F.E.M. being awarded per Army Order of May 1921. He had no Great War medal entitlement.