GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY 958
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. and Bar group of four awarded to Major E. G. Barrell, Machine Gun Corps, late Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
MILITARY CROSS, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, unnamed; 1914-15 STAR (Lieut., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Major) good very fine and better (4)
£1800-2200 M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918. ‘T/Lt. (A./Capt.) attd. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I. and M.G. Corps.’
Bar to M.C. London Gazette 16 September 1918. ‘T./Lt. (A./Capt.), M.C., M.G. Corps’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an enemy attack. Under heavy fire he continually made personal reconnaissances to get in touch with the situation. He sent back most valuable information at a time when most of the signal wires were cut. He did splendid service.’
Ernest Gibbons Barrell was born on 5 October 1894. He attested for the 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 1 September 1914. As a Private in the 1/4th Battalion he was discharged to a commission in the regiment on 19 March 1915. Later with the Machine Gun Corps he was awarded the M.C. and Bar and was appointed Acting Captain in November 1917 and Acting Major in May 1918. He was wounded at Amiens on 26 June 1918 by an enemy bomb dropped by an aircraft - causing a fractured rib, penetration of the right lung, contusion to the kidneys and spinal concussion. He was subsequently awarded the Silver War Badge. Major Barrell died in Whitney, Oxfordshire on 15 February 1922 as a result of his wounds and bacterial endocarditis. With a quantity of copied service papers and other research.
959
A Great War M.C. and post-W.W.2 civil B.E.M. group of eight awarded to Second Lieutenant E. Chapman, Worcestershire Regiment, late Northamptonshire Regiment
MILITARY CROSS, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, 2/Lt. E. Chapman, The Worc. Regt.’; BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL, (Civil)
G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Ernest Chapman M.C.); 1914-15 STAR (10117 Cpl., North’n. R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (2 Lieut.); 1939-45 STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45; CORONATION 1937, these unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine (8)
£1000-1200
M.C. London Gazette 1 February 1919. ‘T./2nd Lt., 3rd Bn. Worc. R.’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion during the counter- attack on the 25th September, 1918, south of Neuve Chapelle, the principal force of which developed against his frontage. He inspired his platoon of young soldiers with such enthusiasm that they pushed that they pushed through the hostile barrage to the units of own, driving the demoralised enemy in front of them.’
B.E.M. London Gazette 2 January 1950. ‘Ernest Chapman, M.C., Head Office Keeper, Commonwealth Relations Office.’
Corporal Ernest Chapman, Northamptonshire Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 31 May 1915. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment on 27 November 1917. With copied m.i.c. and gazette extracts.
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