Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6072 Pte H. Chadbone. Oxford: Lt Infy:) edge bruise, otherwise very fine £100-£140

Herbert Chadbone was borne in Thame, Oxfordshire, in July 1882. He attested into the Oxfordshire Light Infantry in 1889 and served in South Africa with the 1st Battalion. Discharged in 1911, he was recalled for service during the Great War, and appointed Sergeant, serving in Mesopotamia from 5 December 1914, where he was killed in action on 22 November 1915. He is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

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