The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Four: Private A. R. Bragg, 2nd Volunteer Battalion Essex Regiment and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Canadian Engineers, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 27 May 1917
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (806 Pte. A. R. Bragg. C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star (500105 Spr: A. R. Bragg. Can: Eng:); British War and Victory Medals (500105 Spr. A. R. Bragg. C.E.); together with a duplicate Queen’s South Africa Medal, with the same four clasps and identically named, good very fine and better

Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. C. W. Bragg. R.A.F.) good very fine (6) £300-£400

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

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Albert Rufus Bragg was born in Halstead, Essex on 20 November 1880. A turner/carpenter by occupation he enlisted into the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment on 19 May 1898 and served in their City Imperial Volunteers detachment in South Africa during the Boer War. After returning from South Africa, following the disbandment of the C.I.V., he attested for the Imperial Yeomanry on 28 January 1901, although the following day he was discharged ‘failed’ for failing to pass the tests. His was one of thirty consecutive numbers who failed to pass the tests, some others also being from the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment. A replacement Q.S.A. medal was issued to Bragg on 28 June 1906, the original presumably being lost and then found at a later date.

Bragg subsequently attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 14 May 1915, died of wounds in France at No. 42 Casualty Clearing Station, on 27 May 1917, whilst serving as a Sapper with the 2nd Field Company, Canadian Engineers. He is buried at Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Aubigny-en-Artois, France.

Charles Willie Bragg, half-brother of the above, was born in January 1896 in Halstead, Essex, and died in 1922.