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Auction: 4014 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 119

A Scarce Great War Army Chaplain's Mesopotamia O.B.E. Group of Four to The Reverend S.LL. Webb, Assistant Chaplain General, Army Chaplains Department Order of the British Empire, 1st type Officer's Badge, (O.B.E.) Military Division, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1919); British War and Victory Medals (Rev. S. LL. Webb), M.I.D. Oakleaves; Army General Service Medal, 1918-62, G.V.R., two clasps, Iraq, Palestine, extremely fine (4) Estimate £ 300-350 O.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1918 Reverend Stephen Llewellyn Webb, O.B.E., born 1885; during the Great War served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 18.5.1916 - 7.8.1916; Mesopotamia 30.6.1917 - 31.10.1918 (Mentioned in Despatches 27.8.1918, 5.6.1919); Iraq Operations 1919-1920; Chaplain 3rd Class 1928; Chaplain to the Forces, 2nd Class, Army Chaplains Department, British Forces Palestine and Transjordan; Assistant Chaplain General 3.6.1929; The Reverend S.L. Webb died in the 1940s and is buried in Lympstone, Devon.

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