Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major F. H. Chaplin, 154th (Hampshire) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

British War and Victory Medals (Major F. H. Chaplin.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Major F. H. Chaplin. R.A.); together with related memorial plaque (Frederick Hardess Chaplin), illuminated memorial scroll and Buckingham Palace letter, all contained in a contemporary leather covered hinged and glazed display case, nearly extremely fine (4) £600-£800

One of only 27 Territorial Force War Medals awarded to R.G.A. officers.

Major Frederick Hardess Chaplin was born in London on 12 January 1873. He was educated at Tyttenhanger Lodge, near St Albans, and Charterhouse. He obtained a commission in the Hampshire Garrison Artillery (T.F.) and went to South Africa in 1901 with the Wemyss’ Horse; however, he was invalided home after severe enteritis. He was appointed Adjutant to the Hampshire Garrison Artillery upon his recovery, 22 March 1909. He subsequently raised a Heavy Battery, which he commanded for eight years. He served during the Great War in Command of the 154th (Hampshire) Heavy Battery, R.G.A., on the Western Front, from 29 April 1916. He died ‘by his guns’ in France and Flanders on 27 May 1916, of heart failure at Ypres, aged 43. He is buried at Brandhoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.