Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Rev. A. C. H. Rice, M.A. Chaplain R.N.) Naval style large impressed naming, toned, good very fine £200-£300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Boer War Medals to Medical Services, the Church and the Press.

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Alwyne Compton Howard Rice was born in January 1859, son of the Reverend J. H. Rice of Sutton Courteney, near Abingdon. Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, he was Curate of Stamber Mill in Worcestershire before being appointed a Chaplain, Royal Navy, in 1886. His subsequent postings were to H.M. Ships Hotspur (1886), Defiance (1886-87), Himalaya (1887-89), Bellerophon (1889-92), Northampton (1892-93), and at St. Michael's on Ascension Island (1892-93). Following further sea appointments aboard the Edinburgh, Rodney and Repulse, he was sent to South Africa, where between 1901-06 he was employed as Chaplain at the R.N. Hospital and Dockyard, Cape of Good Hope. His last service appointment was back in England at the R.N. Hospital, Portland in 1906-07, following which he became Rector of Horsington and in 1909, Vicar of Stixwould. Between 1909-12 he was Assistant Diocesan Inspector of Schools in Lincolnshire and he is listed in the 1920 edition of Crockford's as resident at Wolferton, King's Lynn, Norfolk.