Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Temporary Captain B. A. Cheadle, Royal Army Medical Corps, who died of enteric typhoid on 11 August 1923

1914-15 Star (Lieut. B. A. Cheadle. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. B. A. Cheadle.); Memorial Plaque (Bernard Arthur Cheadle) with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card envelope, cleaned, nearly extremely fine (4) £200-£240

Bernard Arthur Cheadle was born in London in 1880, the son of a Canon of Westminster Abbey, and trained at St. Thomas’s Hospital. He qualified in 1908, and practiced in Salisbury, Rhodesia, where he was also a Surgeon-Captain in the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers. He was commissioned a temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 27 September 1915. He served with them during the Great War in Gallipoli from 19 October 1915, and died of enteric typhoid contracted whilst on war service on 11 August 1923.