Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An Order of St. John group of three awarded to Superintendent F. W. Chapman, St. John Ambulance Brigade

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background; Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Pte. F. W. Chapman.); St John Service Medal, silver, straight bar suspension, with 3 Additional Award Bars (3582. Cps. Sgt. Maj. F. Chapman. Weston-su-Mare. No.2 Dist. S.J.A.B. 1922.); together with the recipient’s British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18, with integral top riband bar, nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140

Order of St. John, Serving Brother London Gazette 1 January 1935.

Frederick William Chapman was born in 1878 and joined the Weston-super-Mare Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in 1906. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War as a Chief Ward Master, and was advanced to Staff Sergeant in 1915. He was appointed a Serving Brother of the Order of St. John in 1934, and was latterly the Superintendent of the Weston-super-Mare Division. He served during the Second World War in charge of a first-aid post at Filton, and died on 21 January 1949.

Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.