Description
Queen’s South Africa, 2 bars, Cape Colony, SA 1902, 1914 Star with original Clasp “5th Aug – 22nd Nov 1914”, British War Medal, Victory Medal, Private Frederick Webster, 4th Militia Bn Yorkshire Regiment in Boer War, later Royal Army Medical Corps.
QSA officially impressed: “4979 Pte F. Webster Yorkshire Regt”
1914 Star Trio all officially impressed: “4178 Pte F. Webster. R.A.M.C.”
With scarce original clasp sewn onto the 1914 star.
Frederick Webster, would first fight in the Boer War, as a member of the 4th Militia Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, who were embodied early into the war on December 1899, with 500 Officers and Men setting off for South African during February 1900.
Later joining the Regular Army, as a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps, he would be one of the so-called “Old Contemptibles” who landed early into the during 1914, he landed in France on 20th August 1914, with the 9th Field Ambulance amongst the earliest British Soldiers to fight in the war.
He earned the “Clasp and Roses” which are sewn onto his medal, the rose was intended to be worn on a ribbon bar to denote them as one of the 1914 Men, however most preferred to attach them to the medal with the bar.
All 4 medals on original silk ribbons.
Being part of the 9th Brigade, 3rd Division, the 9th Field Ambulance would see much fighting after landing in France in August 1914.
They saw action during 1914 in the Battle of Mons and rearguard action at Solesmes, The Battle of Le Cateau, Battle of the Marne, Battle of teh Aisne, Battle of La Bassee, Messines and First Battles of Ypres.
