Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (3) (William Charles Chatfield; William Frederick Meekham; Archibald Carlyle Edwards) last in card envelope, some verdigris to reverse of first, otherwise generally very fine and better (3) £120-£160

William Charles Chatfield, a native of Uckfield, Sussex, attested for the Royal Sussex Regiment and served with the 13th (3rd South Downs) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He died of wounds on 8 September 1916 and is buried in the Couin British Cemetery, France.

William Frederick Meekham was born in Hove, Sussex, and originally attested for the Army Ordnance Corps, before transferring to the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment. He served with the 15th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and died of wounds on 4 April 1918. He is buried in Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

Archibald Carlyle Edwards, a native of Brighton, Sussex, attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps, and served with them during the Great War. He is listed as having ‘Died at sea’ on 4 May 1917, and is commemorated on the Savona Memorial. It is probable that he was on board the troopship SS Transylvania, sailing from Marseille to Alexandria, when, on 4 May 1917, she was struck in the port engine room by a torpedo fired by the German submarine U-63 and sank almost immediately with the loss of 412 lives.