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3 December 2020

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№ 341

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3 December 2020

Hammer Price:
£800

Eight: Deputy Assistant Chaplain-General to the Forces The Reverend Canon J. C. F. Hood, Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, who served as Chief Chaplain to the British Forces in Norway and Iceland during the Second World War, including the evacuation of Narvik in 1940

1914-15 Star (Rev. J. C. F. Hood. A.C.D.); British War and Victory Medals (Rev. J. C. F. Hood.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, silver and silver-gilt, reverse officially dated ‘1939’, with integral top riband bar, in Royal Mint case of issue; Iceland, Republic, Order of the Falcon, Knight’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel; together with the related miniature awards and silver identity bracelet, inscribed ‘Canon J. C .F. Hood S.C.F.’, generally very fine and better (8) £300-£400

The Reverend Canon John Charles Fulton Hood was born in 1885 and attended St John’s School from 1896 until 1902. He was awarded the Tancred Scholarship to Christ’s College, Cambridge, was ordained in 1907 and ministered at various churches in Nottingham, Leeds, Holbeck, and Garstang. Having been a member of the Territorial Army, on 15 May 1915, he was Commissioned Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class (T/Captain) and entered the French Theatre of War the same day. In 1920 he married Helen Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser, daughter of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, the famous collector and singer of Hebridean songs. He also served as Section Commander, Lancashire Special Constabulary. From 1932 he was rector of Keighley and was promoted Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd Class (Major) on 27 September 1931.

Promoted Chaplain to the Forces, 2nd Class (Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel) on 1 January 1937, Hood was mobilised again on 25 August 1939. During the Second War, he served as Chief Chaplain to the British Forces in Norway in 1940, including the evacuation of Narvik. He served in the same role in Iceland between 1940 and 1941 and between 1942 and 2 December 1944, served as Deputy Assistant Chaplain-General to the Forces. For his services in Iceland, he was made Knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon in 1949. The Reverend’s only son, Lieutenant John Kennedy Hood, was killed in North Africa on 29 September 1943.

Post War Hood served as Rector of Nuneham Courtenay; Rector of Moulton (Suffolk) and Kennett (Cambs.); Canon in Bradford Cathedral; Rural Dean of Craven; and Chaplain to High Sheriff of York. He died in 1964.

Sold with the recipient’s Commission Document, in O.H.M.S. War Office envelope; 1926 Special Constables document and letter of thanks; ‘A Breastplate of Religion For A Soldier’ by the Reverend Hood; a large selection of family and other photographs, including several of the Reverend in uniform; two volumes of ‘
Songs of the Hebrides’; and other ephemera.