Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Charles Montague Chaplin) in card envelope, nearly extremely fine £100-£140

Charles Montague Chaplin was born in 1882, the son of Arthur Chaplin of ‘Dalreagh’, Chaucer Road, Cambridge, and originally served as a Private in Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Struck off strength upon appointment to a commission, he was killed in action on 26 September 1917 whilst serving as Second Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. He has no known grave and is commemorated upon the Tyne Cot Memorial.