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

Three: Second Lieutenant R. M. Chadwick, 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, mortally wounded on the Western Front, 12 May 1915

1914-15 Star (2. Lieut., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.); together with memorial plaque (Richard Markham Chadwick) extremely fine (3) £250-300

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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Richard Markham Chadwick was born at Chetnole, Dorset on 20 November 1894, and educated at Connaught House, Weymouth; Wellington College; and the R.M.A., Woolwich. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 19 December 1913, serving initially with the 10th Company, R.G.A. at Spike Island, and leaving for France with the 11th Siege Battery towards the end of April 1915. Second Lieutenant Chadwick was seriously wounded while on observation duty for his battery, and died the following day, near Bethune on 13 May 1915. He is buried at Bethune Town Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

See Lot 1150 for the medals to his eldest brother Captain F. J. Chadwick, Indian Army, who was killed in Mesopotamia exactly one month earlier.