Holder's service details:
Herbert Benjamin Chatten
Regiment or Corps: Royal Field Artillery
Regimental Number: 53640
H B Chatten
Military Year: 1914
Rank: Driver
Medal Awarded: 1914 Star
Regiment or Corps: Royal Artillery (Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery)
Regimental Number: 53640
Sub Unit: 7th Divisional Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery
Herbert Benjamin Chatten
Military Year: 1914-1920
Rank: Driver
Medal Awarded: British War Medal and Victory Medal
Regiment or Corps: Royal Artillery (Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery)
Regimental Number: 53640
Previous Units: R.F.A. 53640 Dvr.
With 7th DAC. Driver.
Entered France theatre 6 October 1914.
Died of wounds 19 October 1917
Clasp 2/3027 issue voucher 1132/C 8/2/22
Herbert Benjamin Chatten
Gender: Male
Death Date: 19 Oct 1917
Death Place: France
Rank: Driver
Regiment: 7th Div Hd Qrs RFA
Regimental Number: 53640
Gt. Yarmouth, Norfolk
Death Date: 19 Oct 1917
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: Gt. Yarmouth
Rank: DVR.
Regiment: Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery
Regimental Number: 53640
Type of Casualty: Died of wounds
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
Herbert Benjamin Chatten
Age: 27
Birth Date: abt 1890
Death Date: 19 Oct 1917
Cemetery: Cemetery Fr 8 Calais Southern France
Burial Country: France
Father: Fred Chatten
Mother: Alice Chatten
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Regimental Number: 53640
Region or Memorial: France
Medal condition:
Extremely Fine. Mounted and framed. Original ribbons. Clasp missing.
NB I am still researching the photograph to establish whether it is likely to be him.
My apologies as earlier, i incorrectly posted this to another of your blogs. GC
ReplyDeleteDear AHJ,
I was thrilled to find your blog & with it a tangible link to my family history during WW1.
Your post on driver Herbert Benjamin Chatten was of particular interest as Herbert's brother was my great grandfather.
It's amazing that so much family history is at ones fingertips, helped hugely by time spent by my father compiling records for www.ukchattens.net
Out of interest, does Herbert's medal trio have a particular significance to you and would you perhaps condsider selling it in order that it could be reunited with the Chatten family?
I hope that you don't object to me asking.
Regards, Guy Chatten
Dear Guy,firstly thank you very much for your kind comments. I enjoy researching medals and sharing my findings and it is pleasing to know that they may sometimes find an appreciative audience. I am fond of the trio as they are the first medals I ever remember collecting. However, in the spirit of 'do as you would be done by' I would be very happy to discuss selling it back into the family. Perhaps you would like to email me directly - I think this may be possible via my profile? If not, please leave a response here. Yours. Anthony
DeleteDear Anthony,
DeleteThank you for your reply - for some reason, I wasn't expecting one!
I must admit that this is a relatively new interest to me but bought to the fore having just returned (today) from my first visit to Ypres. (I researched my family history before leaving)
We visited the Menin Gate & Tyne Cot and a few years earlier my parents visited the grave of Herbert Chatten where he rests in Calais.
I am delighted that you'd consider selling the medals and would be delighted too to continue our conversation by email - my address I posted to your Google+ account (I think!)
Thanks again for replying.
Kind regards,
Guy
Dear Guy, I have emailed you via my Hotmail account (just in case you need to fish it out of your Spam folder)
DeleteYours,
Anthony