Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Chaplain H. K. White, Royal Navy

Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (Chapn., R.N.); U.N. Korea, unnamed, mounted as worn, very fine and better (5) £220-260

Harold Kent White was born in 1905. He gained a B.A. in Theology at Oxford in 1927 and a M.A. in 1937, White was ordained a Deacon in 1928 and Priest in 1929. He was Curate of St. George, Tredegar, 1928-37; Librarian of Pusey House, Oxford with Licence to Officiate in the Diocese of Oxford and Permission to Officiate in the Diocese of Monmouth, 1937-41. He was appointed Perpetual Curate at Beeston Hill, 1941-44 and was Chaplain of the R.N.V.R., 1944-46, being based at Hasdrubal and St. Angelo. Appointed a Chaplain of the Royal Navy in 1946, he served on Goldfinch, 1946-47; Impregnable, 1947-48; R.A.F. Chaplain’s School, 1948-50; Belfast, 1950-53 - during which time he served in the Korean War; Collingwood, 1953-55; Highflyer, 1955-57; Pembroke, 1957-60. After service in the Navy, he was appointed Rector of Waldershare with Coldred, 1960-62; Curate-in-Charge of Tilmanstone, 1960-62; Vicar of St. Mary, Aldermary City, Diocese of London from 1962 and had Permission to Officiate in the Diocese of Southwark, 1962-69. Sold with some copied research and a white metal ‘Coronation Medal 1937’ of Edward VIII.