Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Chaplain to the Forces the Reverend W. J. Tubb, Army Chaplains’ Department

British War and Victory Medals (Rev. W. J. Tubb.) nearly extremely fine (2) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Chaplains formed by Philip Mussell.

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William Joseph Tubb was born on 13 February 1887 and was ordained a Minister in the Primitive Methodist Church. He attested for the Royal Engineers and served with the R.E. Signallers with the British Expeditionary Force during the Great War for two years, before being nominated by the United Navy and Army Board of the Baptist, Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and United Methodist Churches as one of their 30 Chaplains in December 1916. He subsequently served as a Padre during the Second World War.

Sold together with a ‘Greetings from Mount Pleasant, Bacup’ booklet, dated November 1945, containing a Padre’s letter written by the recipient, and a postcard of Bispham Methodist Church with a cameo portrait photograph of the recipient.