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Auction: 6025 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 250

Family Group: A Great War Western Front Casualty M.C. Group of Three to Captain G.E. Chissell, Royal Army Medical Corps, Attached Royal Welsh Fusiliers Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Capt. G.E. Chissell), extremely fine, with Bronze Memorial Plaque (George Edwin Chissell), in named card box of issue addressed to ´T. Chissell Esq., Oakley, Wimborne, Dorset´ and Buckingham Palace Enclosure; two photographs of the recipient, and one photograph of the recipient´s grave Four: Major P.J. Chissell, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914-15 Star (Lieut. P.J. Chissell. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Major P.J. Chissell.); Jubilee 1935, nearly extremely fine (8) Estimate £ 2,500-2,800M.C. London Gazette 17.12.1917 T./Capt. George Edwin Chissell, R.A.M.C. ´For Conspicious gallantry and devotion to duty in tending the wounded both of his own battalion and others and organising their evacuation. He worked continuously in the open for twenty-four hours under heavy shell and machine-gun fire. When the battalion was relieved he remained until the last man of his brigade had been taken away.´ M.I.D. London Gazette 29.5.1917 Royal Army Medical Corps, Chissell, Temp. Lt. G.E. Captain George Edwin Chissell, M.C., born 1890, the younger son of Tom Chissell, Commissioned attached as Medical Officer, 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers; severely wounded in action and died of wounds 29.10.1917; buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. M.I.D. London Gazette 24.12.1917 Royal Army Medical Corps, Chissell, Capt. P.J. Major Percy John Chissell (1885-1967), the elder son of Tom Chissell, and elder brother of Captain George Edwin Chissell, M.C.; MRCS 1907; Temporary Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps 1.11.1914; served as Specialist Surgeon in France with No.39 Casualty Clearing Station, British Expeditionary Force 15.1.1915-11.11.1918; Captain 19.10.1915; Major 4.1.1918; FRCS 1919; resided and worked in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) 1911-1954.

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