A Collection of Boer War Medals to the Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (C. Chapman, A.B., H.M.S. Sybille) small impressed naming, very fine £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Boer War Medals to the Royal Navy.

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Clement Chapman was born in St. Pancras, London on 22 July 1877. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in September 1892, having previously been employed as an Errand Boy. He was promoted to Boy 1st Class in November 1893 when based at Ganges, Ordinary Seaman in July 1895 when on the Cruiser and Able Seaman in April 1899 when on the Repulse. He served on the 2nd class cruiser Sybille from 16 October 1900 and was aboard her when she ran aground off Lambert’s Bay on 16 January 1901. He was one of 187 men of the vessel to be awarded the Q.S.A. Medal without clasp. In July 1905 when based at Pembroke I he was ranked as a Sailmaker’s Mate; on 1 September the same year he was discharged and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve. Recalled for war service in August 1914, he was posted to the armoured cruiser Aboukir. He was killed in action on 22 September 1914 when the cruiser was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U.9 off Ymuiden in the North Sea. Sailmaker’s Mate Chapman’s name is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. Sold with copied service paper.