Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Reverend A. M. Nelson, Indian Ecclesiastical Department, Chaplain to the Indian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia, and later Chaplain in the Bombay Presidency

British War and Victory Medals (Rev. A. M. Nelson); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, good very fine (3) £100-£140

The Reverend Alan Manson Nelson was appointed to the Bengal Ecclesiastical Department in 1903. In March 1904 he was attached to the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders at Cawnpore, and is confirmed on the Indian Army medal roll for the 1911 Durbar Medal. He is noted as Senior Chaplain (Temporarily reverted to Military duty) in March 1914, and in 1916 he was appointed Chaplain to the Indian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia. In 1920 he was appointed Chaplain of the Bombay Presidency, and Senior Chaplain of St. Andrews Church, Bombay, and the following year was Presidency Senior Chaplain, Church of Scotland. In October 1922 he is shown as on leave pending retirement, and subsequently served as minister at Tundergarth, Dumfriesshire, from 1924 until his retirement in 1934. He died at Dumfries, Scotland, in 1949.