Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain C. M. Durrant, Rhodesian Native Regiment, attached Cape Corps, late Royal Marine Artillery, who was killed by a shell explosion in the German East Africa operations of 1918

1914-15 Star (Capt. D. M. Durrant. R.M.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. M. Durrant R.M.A.) together with Memorial Plaque (Christopher Martin Durrant), extremely fine (4) £300-£400

Dix Noonan Webb, March 2005.

Christopher Martin Durrant, who was born in April 1884, the son of the Rev. C. A. Durrant of Wetherby, and educated at Marlborough, was originally commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry in 1901. Transferring to the Royal Marine Artillery, with whom he gained advancement to Captain in 1915, ‘he had a narrow escape when the Audacious was torpedoed off the Irish coast’, and, sometime thereafter, transferred to East Africa, where he served in the Rhodesia Native Regiment, attached Cape Corps. In late July 1918, however, he was ‘accidentally killed by the premature explosion of a shell’. Durrant was re-interred in the Lumbo British Cemetery in Mozambique after the War.