WW1 Royal Artillery 1917 Casualty Medal Pair and Memorial Plaque, British war and Victory medals to ‘86351 GNR. A. CHAMBERLAIN R.A.’ Memorial plaque ‘ALFRED HENRY CHAMBERLAIN’. Accompanied by a bundle of his more than 40 letters home and later correspondence from his commanding officer, medical officer and a comrade who was present when a shell landed in the dugout in which Alfred was resting on 27th July. His last letter of 1st August 1917 written the day before he died concludes, ‘Don’t write to me here, I shall be in Blighty any day now. Oh dear, I can’t write no more, so love to all. Yours Alf xxx’. e was 32 years old, from Ely, Cambridgeshire, leaving a wife and son Reginald aged 3 years and another Alfred 9 months. The medals transmission letter dated 1st Oct. 1921 is addressed to his widow who had remarried. Chamberlain officially died of wounds on 2nd August 1917.