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Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Rev: F. A. Hill,);
King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Rev: F. A. Hill. C. To F.);
1914 Star, with copy clasp (Rev: F. A. Hill. A.C.D.);
British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Rev. F. A. Hill)

Together with the recipient’s related miniature awards and riband bar.

MID London Gazette 1 January 1916.

Frederick Archer Hill was appointed Chaplain to the Forces, Fourth Class on 28 November 1895 and served in South Africa during the Boer War, where he was noted for bravery attending wounded under fire at the battle of Belmont:

‘Here Chaplain Hill, of the ninth Brigade, covered himself with honours. He followed the fighting line and administered the last consolation of Sacrament to the dying, standing erect where no man dared to show himself amidst the hail of bullets. It was a noble and inspiring picture; the fallen soldier prone in the grip of death; the priest upright and serene; around on every side the tumult of battle and the rush of the storming line.’ (With the Flag to Pretoria, by F. J. Waugh refers).

The April 1900 edition of the Sphere gives further details:

‘At Belmont the Grenadiers were scaling the steep kopje, and men were falling fast. From one wounded soldier to another went Church of England Chaplain Rev. F. A. Hill, lifting a head here, giving water there, commending a departing soul to the God who gave it. “Go back, Padre, go back!” said an officer. “No,” he replied, “I’m in my right place here”.’

For his services in South Africa Hill was mentioned by the Chaplain General:

‘The Chaplain General went on to say that all the Chaplains mentioned were Commissioned Chaplains. It was not easy to state the present location of the men. He knew, however, that the Rev. F. A. Hill (who had been specially mentioned for his bravery and devotion at Belmont) and the Rev. T. F. Falkner were with Lord Methuen’s force’ (London Standard 15 December 1899).

Hill saw further service during the Great War with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 19 August 1914.

There are a couple of Belmont clasps to the ACD. It seems odd that Chaplain Hill should not receive that clasp.

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QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Rev: H. H. Scofield,) officially engraved naming;
KSA (2) (Rev. H. H. Scofield, C. to F.) officially engraved naming

Noonan's say 'Reverend H H Scofield is confirmed on the roll for the Army Chaplains Department, which contains 75 names. Sold with copied medal roll and a copied image of Rev. Scofield with the Bishop of Pretoria in front of the church tent with a number of convalescent soldiers immediately after a Confirmation service at No. 7 General Hospital, Pretoria.'

A Navy chaplain


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QSA (0) (Rev. A. C. H. Rice, M.A. Chaplain R.N.) Naval style large impressed naming

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 HM 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 RN 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.

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QSA (0) (Rt: Rev: H. McSherry,) officially re-engraved naming

MID London Gazette 29 July 1902: ‘Civilians: Right Rev. H. McSherry, D.D., Roman Catholic Bishop of Cape Town.’

Sold with copied medal roll entry which also notes: ‘Bishop McSherry’s train was attacked by the Boers, when he was returning from duty, viz the funeral service of the Rev. Peter Fox. This happened between Rosemead Junction and Port Elizabeth. Bp. McSherry was mentioned in despatches for his services.’

The Right Rev. Dr. Hugh McSherry, Vicar-Apostolic of the Eastern Districts of Cape Province, was born on Armagh, Ireland, on 1 February 1852. Educated St Patrick’s College, Armagh, he began a Theological course at Coll. des Irlandais, Paris, in 1871, and two years afterwards took Minor Orders. He was ordained as Priest in 1875, and appointed to Curacy of Clogherhead, County Louth. In 1882, he transferred to Tallanstown, and to Ardee in 1888; he was appointed Administrator, Dundalk, in 1893; and consecrated Bishop in 1896. McSherry became a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute in 1902, and Assistant at the Pontifical Throne in 1926. McSherry resided at St Augustine’s, Port Elizabeth, and Bishop’s House, 87, Beaufort Street, Grahamstown.

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QSA (1) Cape Colony (Mr. F. H. Rogers. Lay Chaplain.) officially engraved naming

No other information with the medal. Roll entry not yet found. There is mention of a Chaplain F A Rogers on WO100/235p238