The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal E. A. Potter, 2nd Volunteer Battalion Essex Regiment and City of London Imperial Yeomanry, later Sergeant-Major, Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, Belfast (794 Cpl. E. A. Potter, C.I.V.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 1 clasp, South Africa 1902 (20606 Sjt:- Maj: E. A. Potter. Imp: Yeo:) toned, extremely fine (2) £300-£400

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

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Edgar Arthy Potter was born in Halstead, Essex in 1875. A farmer, he enlisted into the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment on 12 February 1892 and served in South Africa during the Boer War with their City Imperial Volunteers detachment in No. 1 Company, Mounted Infantry. Promoted to Corporal in the C.I.V. before its disbandment on 30 November 1900, he attested on 26 January 1901 for the Imperial Yeomanry, sailing again for South Africa and serving there with the 44th (Suffolk) Company, 12th Battalion from 26 February 1901. He was promoted Sergeant-Major on 22 April 1901, and was hospitalised at Harrismith on 8 April 1902 suffering from jaundice, rheumatism, and enteric fever, resulting from exposure on active service. He transferred to Mooi River General Hospital on 20 May 1902 and then to No. 15 General Hospital, Howick, before being transferred to S.S. Manilla for a passage back to England on 14 August 1902. He was discharged at Shorncliffe on 12 October 1902 in consequence of the termination of his engagement.

Both K.S.A. medal rolls also confirm his additional entitlement to the South Africa 1901 clasp; one medal roll showing ‘S.A. 1901’ granted, cancelled and then granted 1903. The other showing ‘SA 1901’ ‘no’ struck through and then ‘yes’.

Sold together with the recipient’s Freedom of the City of London parchment certificate; and the recipient’s 1899 ‘Queen’s Shilling’.