Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Mesopotamia operations M.C. group of five awarded to Captain F. H. Charnley, Royal Engineers, late Leicestershire Regiment, Royal Welsh Fusiliers and Indian Army

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star, naming erased; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. F. H. Charnley); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21 (Capt. F. H. Charnley, 4-39 R.G.), mounted as worn, very fine or better (5) £700-£900

M.C. London Gazette 7 February 1918:
‘For distinguished service rendered in connection with Military Operations in Mesopotamia’

Frederick Harold Charnley, a native of Colwyn Bay, Wales, originally enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment and went to France as a Private in March 1915. He was discharged to a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the same month and went on to witness active service in Mesopotamia in the 8th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and on attachment to the 3/7th Gurkhas; whether he had earlier fought with the Battalion in the Gallipoli operations remains unknown. He was awarded the M.C.

In September 1918, Charnley transferred to the Indian Army and was subsequently actively employed in the Mahsud and Waziristan operations in 1919-21. Having then reverted to the Retired List and enrolled in the Territorial Army, he was recalled in May 1939 and appointed a Captain and Administrative Officer in the Royal Engineers, but he relinquished his commission at the end of the same year.