Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Rev. W. Brown, Royal Army Chaplain’s Department

British War and Victory Medals (Rev.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, reverse dated, ‘1948’, unnamed; together with an Army Chaplains Department cap badge, very fine and better (6) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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Rev. W. Brown, a Presbyterian Minister, was appointed Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class on 6 October 1917. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 15 January 1918. As a Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class he was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (London Gazette 2 November 1948). With copied m.i.c. and gazette extract.