Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Chaplain to the Forces the Reverend R. R. Lewis, Royal Army Chaplains’ Department

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, these all contemporarily impressed ‘79907 Rev. R. R. Lewis CF’; Cadet Forces Medal, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar (Cdt. Capt. R. R. Lewis.) contact marks, very fine (6) £180-£220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 29 November 1945:
‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy.’

The Reverend Richard Rice Lewis was born in 1903 and was educated at Jesus College, Oxford and Ripon Hall. Appointed Assistant Master at Brentwood School in 1925, he took Holy Orders the following decade, being Ordained Deacon in 1934, and Priest in 1935, and served as the School’s Assistant Chaplain. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he was commissioned Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class in June 1941, and served during the Second World War with the Middle East Forces Medical Establishments, and later with 63 General Hospital in North Africa and the Central Mediterranean Force s in Italy. For his services during the War he was Mentioned in Despatches. He transferred to the Reserve of Officers in 1946, as Honorary Chaplain to the Forces, and returned to Brentwood School, where he was appointed Chaplain in 1947. He retired from the school in 1961, and subsequently held various diocesan appointments in Gloucester, Oxford, and St. Albans.

The recipient’s Cadet Forces Medal is presumably for his services with the Brentwood School Combined Cadet Corps.

Sold with various postcard photographs believed to be of the recipient.