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Auction: 26002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 208

A Great War D.C.M. group of five to Warrant Officer C. W. Tapson, Royal Army Medical Corps

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (39862 S.Mjr: C. W. Tapson. 53/F.A.R.A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (39862. Q.M.Sjt. C. W. Tapson, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (39862 W.O.CL.1 C. W. Tapson. R.A.M.C.); Service Medal of the Order of St. John, with three extra bars (3755 D/Supt. C. W. Tapson Dukinfield & Stalybge Div No.4 Det S.J.A.B. 1924), mounted as worn, light contact marks, otherwise very fine throughout (5)

D.C.M. London Gazette 13 February 1917.

'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He has performed consistent good work throughout, and has on many occasions displayed great courage and determination in tending the wounded, under heavy fire.'

Charles William Joseph Harry Tapson was born in Agra, India on 3 June 1875 and lived in Rhodes, Manchester where he worked as a railway wagon builder before the Great War. He enlisted into the Royal Army Medical Corps at Chester on 2 October 1914 and entered the war in France on 17 July 1915.

Tapson suffered with the effects of gassing on 12 October 1918; his papers note that he did not go sick but he was treated at his unit. However, he was admitted to No. 5 Field Ambulance with influenza on 28 October 1918. He was transferred to No. 45 Casualty Clearing Station the same day before going to No. 5 General Hospital at Rouen on 30 October 1918. He was sent home on 4 November 1918. He was transferred to the Reserve on 19 April 1919 and returned to his previous career, later becoming a railway wagon inspector. He died at Bentley, near Doncaster, Yorkshire on 23 December 1957; sold together with a Cheshire Masonic Charities medal, 'Bro C. W. Tapson. Life Governor C.E.M.I & C.M.B.I.' engraved.

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Estimate
£600 to £800

Starting price
£500