Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Captain L. C. Bourchier, Army Chaplains Department, late Royal Army Medical Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) good very fine (2) £30-40

Le Gendre Claude Bourchier was born in 1888. Attending Trinity College, Cambridge, he gained a B.A. in History in 1909. Attending Leeds Clerical School in 1909, he was appointed a curate in 1910 at Hornsey, North London and was ordained a priest in the following year. During 1912-15 he was the Rector of Roseau, Dominica in the West Indies. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during 1915-16 and was Temporary Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class during 1916-20, being appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Forces in 1921. After the war he was Vicar of St. John’s at Dewsbury Moor, Yorkshire, 1920-25 and then Vicar of St. Mary’s, Wymeswold, Loughborough, Leicestershire. He died in 1944 as Vicar of St. Augustine’s at Flintham, Nottinghamshire. (For his grandfather’s medal, see lot 40).