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

The School Prize Medals and related artifacts won by Major P. B. Chambers, M.C., Trucial Oman Scouts, late Hampshire Regiment and Special Air Service, killed in an ambush in Oman in March 1958

Monkton Combe School Athletic Sports Prize Medals (11), bronze, 45mm, all in their John Pinches presentation cases, all but three fully inscribed with name and events between 1935 and 1942, mostly for running or jumping, together with twelve school team photographs and named certificate of baptism, good condition (Lot) £60-80

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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Peter Brassey Chambers was born in 1924 and educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath, where he was Captain of Hockey 1940-42, and in the 1st teams for Football, Cricket, Rugby and Hockey. He was a Sergeant in the Officer’s Training Corps and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment, attached to the Chindits in 1944 winning the Military Cross in Burma during that year. He was transferred to the Army Air Corps in May 1945 and was subsequently attached to the Sudan Defence Force and the Ethiopian Levies. In August 1953 he was appointed Adjutant of 22 S.A.S. Regiment, and in July 1954 became officer commanding H.Q. Squadron, 22 S.A.S., serving with the regiment in Malaya 1954-55. In October 1955 he was transferred to the Trucial Oman Scouts and was killed in action in an ambush at Muti, Oman, on 30 March 1958. He was buried in the American Mission Cemetery, Bahrain, but was subsequently disinterred and his body returned to the U.K. at the request of his family.