Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private F. G. Chappell, Royal Marine Light Infantry

1914-15 Star (Ch. B.12896 Pte. F. Chappell. R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch. 12896 Pte. F. G. Chappell. R.M.L.I.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (Ch. 12896 F. Chappell, Pte. R.M.L.I.) very fine (4) £120-£160

Francis George Chappell was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, on 14 May 1883 and enlisted into the Chatham Division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry in London on 12 October 1901. Promoted Corporal on 13 February 1904, he was reduced back to Private on 1 November 1905, and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Wildfire from 1 January to 21 May 1915, and in H.M.S. Actaeon from 3 August 1915 to the end of the War. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 21 May 1921, and was discharged on 13 October 1922. He subsequently enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve.