The John Chidzey Collection

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (Rev. B. A. Berry) mounted as worn, edge bruise, good very fine £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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Benjamin Allen Berry was born in Staveley, Derby on 26 May 1869. He was educated at Huddersfield High School and Peterhouse College, Cambridge, where he gained a B.A. in 1892 and M.A. in 1896. He was ordained a Deacon in 1894 and Priest in Manchester in 1901. Appointed Curate of St. Augustine, Tong Moor, Lancashire, 1894-97 and Holy Trinity, Preston, 1897-1904.

Served in the Boer War as an Acting Chaplain to the Forces - served with the 1st Volunteer Battalion North Lancashire Regiment. Served as Royal Naval Chaplain on H.M.S. Roxburghe, 1905-06. During 1906-20 he was Secretary of the Waifs and Strays Society for the Diocese of Worcester, Lichfield, Birmingham and Hereford (plus Coventry 1918-20), he was also Curate of St. George, Worcester, 1907-20. During the Great War he once more served as an Acting Chaplain to the Forces. During 1920-34 he was Rector of Kildale in the Diocese of York, 1920-34 and was also Curate of Guisborough and of Commondale, 1921-27. The Rev. Berry died on 27 January 1934.

With copied research.