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Auction: 22002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 224

A 1929 M.B.E. group of five awarded to Reverend M. T. Dodds, Army Chaplains Department

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Military Division, Member's breast Badge, silver; 1914 Star, copy clasp (Rev: M. T. Dodds. A.C.D.); British War and Victory Medals (Rev. M. T. Dodds.); Efficiency Decoration, Territorial, G.V.R., silver-gilt and silver, mounted as worn, very fine (5)

M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1929.

Maitland Theophilus Dodds was educated at Emmanuel College and Ridley College, Cambridge and was a Chaplain to the Forces (Territorial) from 1912. Upon the outbreak of the Great War he was a Curate at Croydon and landed in France on 9 November 1914 (1914 Star without clasp). He saw a number of further postings including as Curate in Charge at St Mary's, Sanderstead, 1921-25 and as Vicar of Amesbury, 1925-27. He was Sub-Warden of The Hostel, King's College, London, 1928-35 and then became Vicar at Blindley Heath, 1935-38. Curate at St Andrews, Wimbledon, 1938-41, he would have shared in the London Blitz and was then at Preston, Brighton, 1941-45. Rector and Vicar of Westbourne, 1943-54, he retired to Blackman House, Canon Lane, Chichester.

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