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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 314

Three: Major F. H. Chaplin, 154th (Hampshire) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (Major F.H. Chaplin.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Major F.H. Chaplin R.A.), extremely fine, with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Frederick Hardess Chaplin), and Parchment Memorial Scroll, all housed in a contemporary leather covered hinged and glazed display case, with Enclosure Slip for Plaque (lot)

Major Frederick Hardess Chaplin, born 1873, London; educated at Tyttenhanger Lodge and Charterhouse; commissioned Hampshire Garrison Artillery (T.F.) and went to South Africa in 1901 with the Weymyss Horse; however he was invalided home after severe enteritis; appointed Adjutant to the Hampshire Garrison Artillery upon his recovery, 22.3.1909; subsequently raised a Heavy Battery, which he commanded for 8 years; served during the Great War in Command of the 154th (Hampshire) Heavy Battery, R.G.A., on the Western Front, from 29.4.1916; died of heart failure ‘by his guns’, at Ypres, 27.5.1916; he is buried at Brandhoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.

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