Auction Catalogue

30 March 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 959

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30 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£1,300

A Great War M.C. and post-W.W.2 civil B.E.M. group of eight awarded to Second Lieutenant E. Chapman, Worcestershire Regiment, late Northamptonshire Regiment

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, 2/Lt. E. Chapman, The Worc. Regt.’; British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Ernest Chapman M.C.); 1914-15 Star (10117 Cpl., North’n. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1937, these unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine (8) £1000-1200

M.C. London Gazette 1 February 1919. ‘T./2nd Lt., 3rd Bn. Worc. R.’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion during the counter-attack on the 25th September, 1918, south of Neuve Chapelle, the principal force of which developed against his frontage. He inspired his platoon of young soldiers with such enthusiasm that they pushed through the hostile barrage to the units of our own, driving the demoralised enemy in front of them.’

B.E.M.
London Gazette 2 January 1950. ‘Ernest Chapman, M.C., Head Office Keeper, Commonwealth Relations Office.’

Corporal Ernest Chapman, Northamptonshire Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 31 May 1915. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment on 27 November 1917.

With copied m.i.c. and gazette extracts.