Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Mesopotamia operations’ D.C.M. group of five awarded to Corporal F. P. Chard, Royal Horse Artillery

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (56846 Bmbr: F. P. Chard. ‘V’ By: R.H.A.); 1914-15 Star (56846. Pte. F. P. Chard, R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (56846. Cpl. F. P. Chard. R.A.); Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Fred Percy Chard. D.C.M.) mounted court-style, number officially corrected on DCM, toned, good very fine (5) £600-£800

D.C.M. London Gazette 26 August 1918; citation published 21 October 1918:
‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in connection with Military Operations with the British Forces in Mesopotamia. As a signaller he has rendered consistently fine service for upwards of two years, frequently maintaining good communications under heavy fire, and especially in one action, when he successfully kept up the battery communications throughout a night and day, in spite of most difficult conditions.’

Frederick Percy Chard attested for the Royal Horse Artillery on 14 December 1909 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 December 1914. Awarded the D.C.M., he was discharged from the R.H.A. Depot owing to sickness on 4 November 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge No. B333,436. He subsequently became a postman at Tidworth, Andover, and then at Aldershot and Farnborough, and was later a pensioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.

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