A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars

Three: Captain F. J. Chadwick, 104th (Wellesley’s) Rifles, Indian Army, mortally wounded near Shaiba, Mesopotamia, 13 April 1915, and posthumously M.I.D.

1914-15 Star (Capt., 104/Rif.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); together with memorial plaque (Frederick James Chadwick) extremely fine (4) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars.

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Frederick James Chadwick was born at Chetnole, Dorsetshire on 31 August 1883, and educated at Cheltenham and the R.M.C., Sandhurst. After passing out in August 1903, for the Indian Army, he was attached for a year to the 2nd Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment at Poona. He was posted to the Indian Army in 1904, becoming Lieutenant in November 1905, and served in the Mekran gun-running expedition of 1911, being promoted Captain in August 1912.

Captain Chadwick was mortally wounded near Shaiba, Mesopotamia on 13 April 1915 while leading his machine-gun section, and died the same day. He is buried at Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.

See Lot 1152 for the medals to his youngest brother Lieutenant R. M. Chadwick, Royal Garrison Artillery, who was killed near Bethune exactly one month later.