Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant R. E. Chapman, Royal Field Artillery, late Honourable Artillery Company

1914-15 Star (742 Gnr. R. E. Chapman. H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. R. E. Chapman.) good very fine (3) £80-120

Reginald Edward Chapman was born in Exeter in 1884, the son of Mr. Charles Edward, a Railway Superintendent. He followed his father into the Railways, as a railway clerk for the London and South West Railways from 1899 to 1908, when he resigned, having passed First Class at the London School of Economics. He then travelled from Southampton to Buenos Aires on 8 January 1909.
Returning home, he enlisted in Honourable Artillery Company (Artillery), and served with them during the Great War with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Egypt, as acting Quarter Master Sergeant of ‘A’ Battery, Honourable Artillery Company (Artillery) from 21 April 1915. He was commissioned in Royal Field Artillery on 9 September 1916 and joined 126th Battery, 29th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front on 26 November 1916. In September 1917, he was invalided home with trench fever, before returning to duty in December 1917. He last served with 415 Battery, Royal Field Artillery, before emigrating permanently to San Christobal, Argentina, at the end of the War. He died on 5 June 1939.