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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 768

(x) Pair: Corporal E. A. H. Chapman, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who died of a gunshot wound to the head at the 17th Casualty Clearing Station, St Eloi, on 26 January 1917

British War and Victory Medals (C-6527 Cpl. E. H. A. Chapman, K. R. Rif. C.), very fine (2)

Ernest Arthur Henry Chapman was the grandson of Elizabeth L. Leeson of 36 Aldenham Street, St. Pancras, London. He served in France from 25 May 1916 with the 18th (Arts and Crafts) Service Battalion, K.R.R.C., initially in the trenches near Ploegsteert Wood and later, near the village of Lijssenhoek, which was home to a number of Casualty Clearing Stations owing to its location on the main communication line between Allied military bases in the rear and the Ypres battlefields; aged just 19, he is buried at the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.

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