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Auction: 16002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 27

Three: Captain C.C. Stanfield, East Kent Regiment, Severely Wounded at Radinghem, During the Battle of the Aisne, 20.10.1914
1914 Star and Bar (Lieut: C.C. Stanfield. E. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C.C. Stanfield.), good very fine, with various photographs of the recipient's grave, memorials, and family home (3)

Captain Charles Cecil Stanfield, born Apperley Bridge, Leeds, Yorkshire, January 1884; educated at Shrewsbury School and Exeter College, Oxford; Commissioned Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, East Kent Regiment, 26.11.1911; served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion on the Western Front from 7.9.1914, and took part in the Battle of the Aisne; severely wounded at Radinghem, 20.10.1914, on which date the Battalion suffered 4 Officers and 17 men killed, and 4 Officers and 57 men wounded, with a further 62 men missing; promoted Captain, 2.2.1915; posted to the 1st Garrison Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, for Garrison Duty in the Mediterranean and Egypt, 1.12.1915; died in hospital at Aldershot of spinal meningitis, 31.5.1917, and is buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery.

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