Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Western Front M.C. group of four awarded to Major N. R. L. Chance, Royal Field Artillery, late Notts and Derby Regiment

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut. N. R. L. Chance. Notts: & Derby: R.); British War and Victory Medals, with small M.I.D. oak leaf (Major N. R. L. Chance.) mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (4)
£800-1000

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

M.I.D. London Gazette 22 June 1915.

Noel Richard Lucas Chance was born on Christmas Day 1881, and educated at Eton College, 1895-99, and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery in 1901 and promoted to Lieutenant in July 1904, and served with IIIth Battery, XXIV Brigade, R.F.A., at Exeter. He retired from the army in 1906, and rejoined to serve in the Great War with the Sherwood Foresters, belonging to the 2nd Battalion, but serving with the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion as a Lieutenant until 8 August 1914. He went to France on 20 October 1914 and joined his 2nd Battalion on 30 October. He subsequently served with the Royal Field Artillery from 1915-19, being appointed Major in December 1915, and awarded the M.C.,, becoming a Brigade Major on the staff as an R.F.A. Special Reserve Officer on 18 October 1918.

From 1924 he was a J.P. for Warwickshire, living Alcester, Warwicks, and was a member of the Army and Navy Club. His brother was Walter Lucas Chance, Chairman of Chance Bros., Glass Manufacturers, of West Bromwich. Major Chance died in April 1947 at his London home in Montpelier Square S.W.7.