Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (64166 Gunr. J. Chapman. A. By. R.H.A.) mounted for display alongside the riband of the Queen’s South Africa Medal, toned, nearly extremely fine £140-£180

J. Chapman attested for the Royal Horse Artillery and served with ‘A’ Battery on the Punjab Frontier (one of only 22 two-clasp medals awarded to the Battery), and with ‘O’ Battery in South Africa during the Boer War. He drowned in the Umsindust River on 8 May 1900 (entitled to a Queen’s South Africa Medal with Natal clasp).

Sold with a clasp ‘Frontier-1897-8’ of the type commonly encountered on Temperance Medals; and copied medal roll extracts and other research.