Four: Sergeant W. F. Whittaker, Middlesex Regiment
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between second, third, and fourth clasps (3265 Cpl. J. [sic] Whittaker. Middlesex Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (1287 Sgt. W. F. Whittaker. Midd’x R.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3265 Sjt: W. F. Whittaker. Middx: Regt.)
light contact marks, and minor edge bruise to LS&GC, otherwise nearly very fine and better
William Frederick Whittaker was born in Bethnal Green in 1871 and enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment at Hounslow on 13 June 1891. Posted as Private to the 1st Battalion, he served in Ireland at Kilkenny and Waterford before being sent to India in 1894. Discharged as Corporal 13 June 1898, he was soon recalled to Army Service 13 November 1899 and witnessed active service with the 2nd Battalion during the Boer War from 2 December 1899 to 12 February 1901. Transferring to the 6th Battalion (General Staff), Whittaker was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1911 and served during the Great War overseas from 1916 as Sergeant in the Middlesex Regiment and Labour Corps.
