Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private F. E. Chapman, 6th (Wiltshire Yeomanry) Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, late 9th (City of London) Battalion (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) London Regiment, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War at Messines on 10 April 1918 and died in captivity on 27 September 1918.

British War and Victory Medals (394629 Pte. F. E. Chapman. 9-Lond. R.); Memorial Plaque (Frederick Ernest Chapman) extremely fine (3) £100-£140

Frederick Ernest Chapman was born in Camberwell, London, on 28 February 1899 and attested for the 9th (City of London) Battalion (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) London Regiment at Kingston-on-Thames. He transferred to the 6th (Wiltshire Yeomanry) Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment and was captured by the Germans at Messines on 10 April 1918 during the Spring Offensive. He died in captivity of heart failure at Friedrichsfeld Prisoner of War Camp on 27 September 1918, and is buried at Grand-Seraucourt British Cemetery, France.

Sold with an Aldershot Command Athletic Association Medal, the reverse inscribed ‘Command. Military Efficiency Competitions Sept. 1917. 1st Team’ and additionally engraved ‘Physical Training. 9th Res London Regt.’. The rim engraved ‘Rfm. F. E. Chapman’; and a booklet entitled ‘The War Graves of the British Empire. The Register of the names of those who fell in the Great War and are buried in the Noyan Group of Cemeteries in France.’