Orders, Decorations and Medals

British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. T. B. Chatteris) nearly extremely fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Brigadier Brian Parritt, C.B.E..

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Tom Brodie Chatteris was born in London on 9 March 1881 and educated at Sherborne, the 4th son of Charles C. Chatteris of Nicholls and Chatteris, Chartered Accountants, and his wife, Edith Coralie Chatteris. He was gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion Sherwood Foresters, on 1 February 1900 and promoted to Lieutenant on 19 March 1902. With them he served in the Boer War and was awarded the Queen’s medal with one clasp. Soon after, he retired from the Army with the rank of Honorary Lieutenant in the Army and joined the Special Reserve of Officers. He was then employed by the British Borneo Company, engaged in forestry work in Siam. With the outbreak of war he returned to England and in December 1914 rejoined the Sherwood Foresters. Chatteris entered France on 14 May 1915 and was gazetted a Temporary Captain in June. He was killed in action serving with the 3rd Battalion at Hooge on 9 August 1915. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. At the time of his death, his mother was living at The Little House, Chalford, Gloucestershire.

With original copy of the recipient’s handwritten Will, dated 8 August 1915, and signed by Captain Chatteris, Lieutenant G. P. Walsh and Lieutenant J. W. Colin Taylor, all 3rd Battalion Sherwood Forresters - all of whom were to be killed in action the next day. With additional copied service papers and research.