Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Chaplain to the Forces the Reverend W. T. Bourne, Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, attached Grenadier Guards in Palestine

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 3 clasps, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya, Canal Zone (The Rev. W. T. Bourne. CF3. R.A.Ch.D.) mounted as worn, title and first initial partially officially corrected, good very fine £340-400

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 Temple Bourne was educated at Hertford College, Oxford, and Wells Theological College, and was ordained Deacon in 1936 and Priest in 1937. He served as Curate of Corsham from 1936-38, and of Kettering from 1938-40, before being appointed Chaplain to the Forces in 1940, serving throughout the Second World War and subsequently in Palestine from 1945-48 (where he was attached to the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards from 31 October 1945 to 1 April 1948); in Malaya from 1948-49; and in the Canal Zone from 1952-55. Appointed Rector of Melton Constable in 1958, he was subsequently appointed Vicar of Swardeston, in Norwich, in 1965.