Orders, Decorations and Medals

A C.B.E. group of three awarded to 1st Class Chaplain to the Forces Edward Herbert Pulling, Army Chaplain’s Department

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (4/Cl. Rev. C.D.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp, unnamed, good very fine and better (3) £1000-1200

C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Edward Herbert Pulling was born in Traine House, Modbury, Devon, on 23 January 1859, the youngest son of Rev. F. W. Pulling, Vicar of Pinhoe, Devon. Educated at the Royal Academy, Gosport (Burneys); Oxford University, and Salisbury Theological College. He was appointed Curate of Melksham, 1883-1890, and was ordained Priest in 1885.

Pulling joined the Army Chaplains Department as Chaplain 4th Class (Captain) on 11 November 1890, serving at Aldershot, 1890-1893. His next appointment was at the Cavalry Dept, Canterbury, 1893-1898. He then served on the Sudan expedition from 12 August 1898, based at the Atbara Hospital from 19 August to 19 September 1898. Pulling was one of only seven Chaplains to serve in the Sudan Expedition 1896-98. He remained with the Alexandria Garrison for the next five years and was made Chaplain 3rd Class (Major) on 27 November 1900. Returning from Egypt he was then stationed at Plymouth, 1903-06, and served at Golden Hill from 1 January 1904. On 27 November 1905 he was promoted to Chaplain 2nd Class (Lt. Col.). He was then stationed as Senior Chaplain at Dublin, 26 April 1906-20 June 1912, being promoted to 1st Class Chaplain to the Forces (Colonel) on 27 November 1910. Back to England and Portsmouth, from 21 June 1912, he remained at this post during the first two years of the Great War, until November 1916, when he was transferred to the Humber Garrison. He served with the Lincolnshire Coast Defences, 1918-1919. For his services during the war he was awarded the C.B.E.

Pulling retired from the Army in 1919, becoming Vicar of Morgan’s Vale, Salisbury, 1919-23. He retired from his post in 1923 as a result of ill-health but remained active in the Church and was, at the time of his death on 25 January 1928, the Priest in Charge at Tilford Mission, near Farnham. He was buried in Green Lane Cemetery, Farnham. Sold with copied research and photograph.