Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Three: Private B. Chubb, Wiltshire Regiment, who was killed in action in Gallipoli in August 1915

1914-15 Star (9785 Pte. B. Chubb, Wilts. R.); British War and Victory Medals (), good very fine or better (3) £200-250

Benjamin Chubb was born in Shrewton, Wiltshire and enlisted in Devizes. Posted to the 5th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, he was killed in action on 10 August 1915, when the Turks attacked over the crest of Chunuk Bair, three companies of the Battalion being caught in the open and, according to an eye-witness, ‘annihilated.’

Chubb has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.