Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of seven awarded to Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant E. Stephenson, South Staffordshire Regiment, later Chaplain to the Forces, Royal Army Chaplains’ Department

Military Medal, G.V.R. (21933 R.Q.M. Sjt: E. Stephenson. 2/S. Staff: R.); British War and Victory Medals (21933 W.O. Cl.2 E. Stephenson. S. Staff. R.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1950, with integral top riband bar, good very fine (7) £700-£900

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

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M.M. London Gazette 20 August 1919.

Edgar Stephenson was born in Tamworth, Staffordshire, on 24 September 1894 and attested for the South Staffordshire Regiment. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, was advanced Warrant Officer Class II, and was awarded the Military Medal for his gallant conduct during the last three months of the War.

Turning to the cloth, Stephenson was ordained Deacon in 1924, and Priest in 1925, and held the living of a number of parishes in the Manchester Diocese. Commissioned Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, Royal Army Chaplains’ Department (Territorial Army) in 1933, he served during the Second World War with the British Expeditionary Force in 1940, and was present at the evacuation from Dunkirk.

Awarded his Efficiency Decoration in 1950, Stephenson was appointed an Honorary Canon of Manchester Cathedral in 1946, and was later Archdeacon of Rochdale from 1951 to 1962. He died on 29 May 1984.

Sold with copied research, including various photographic images of the recipient.