Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Corporal R. Spackman, Wiltshire Regiment, who was wounded four times during his first year on the Western Front, October 1914 to September 1915

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (5127 Pte R. Spackman. Wilts: Regt); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (5127 Pte R. Spackman. Wiltshire Regt); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (5127 Pte R. Spackman. 1/Wilts: R.); British War and Victory Medals (5127 Cpl. R. Spackman. Wilts. R.) contact marks and edge bruising to Boer War awards, these very fine, the Great War awards nearly extremely fine (5) £300-400

Roland John Seckston Spackman was born in Cherhil, near Swindon, Wiltshire, in 1880, and attested for the Wiltshire Regiment from the Militia, in 1898. On the outbreak of the Great War he re-joined the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment for a 4-year period of engagement, and served on the Western Front from 27 October 1914. He was reported missing near Ypres in October/November 1914, suffering shrapnel wounds to the forehead on 14 November 1914 and invalided home. He re-joined in February 1915 and was promoted Corporal. On 2 June, 1915, he received a gunshot wound to the left leg, He re-joined in July 1915 and was wounded for a third and fourth time on 1 September 1915, gunshot wounds to the left groin and shoulder, and invalided home. Corporal Spackman was discharged after 17 years’ service, in November 1915, time expired, but was still receiving hospital treatment in 1918. He died in Surrey in 1961.