Auction Catalogue

15 March 2023

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Lot

№ 360

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15 March 2023

Hammer Price:
£110

Three: Acting Corporal P. B. Chew, Royal Army Medical Corps

1914 Star (68 Pte. P. B. Chew. R.A.M.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (68 A. Cpl. P. B. Chew. R.A.M.D. [sic]); Victory Medal 1914-19 (68 A. Cpl. P. B. Chew. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn and housed with shoulder titles and cap badge in a glazed display frame, light contact marks, very fine (3) £140-£180

Percival Bradley Chew was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1886 and attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving with them pre-War in Egypt. He served with No. 13 Stationary Hospital on the Western Front during the Great War from 14 October 1914, and was later posted to the Somerset Light Infantry. He died in Stroud in 1953.

Sold with a Princess Mary 1914 Christmas tin with reproduction contents; a 1914 Active Service New Testament; various postcards and photographs; a small bag of miscellaneous charms; and copied research.