Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M., post-war B.E.M. group of six awarded to Lance-Corporal W. E. H. Cheape, Middlesex Regiment, afterwards an employee of the Royal Courts of Justice

Military Medal, G.V.R. (240546 L. Cpl. W. E. Cheape, 2/Middx. R.); British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R. (William Ernest Hathaway Cheape), in its Royal Mint case of issue; 1914-15 Star (2950 Pte. W. E. Cheape, Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2950 Pte. W. E. Cheape, Middx. R.); Defence Medal 1939-45, in its named card forwarding box, good very fine and better (6) £600-800

M.M. London Gazette 16 July 1918.

B.E.M. London Gazette 2 June 1973.

William Ernest Hathaway Cheape was disembarked at Cairo with the 2/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, at the end of August 1915, where his unit joined the Western Frontier Force for operations in response to the Senussi uprising and fought at the battle of Agagia. Subsequently awarded his M.M. for gallant deeds in the 2nd Battalion in France in 1918, he added the B.E.M. to his accolades for services as a Paperkeeper in the Family Division of the Royal Courts of Justice; sold with original Downing Street and Buckingham Palace letters in respect of the award of the B.E.M.