Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Reverend G. G. Newman, Royal Army Chaplains Department

British War and Victory Medals (Rev.) mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £100-140

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

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Geoffrey Gunnell Newman graduated from Keble College, Oxford with a B.A. in 1913 and later gained a M.A. in 1920. He trained for the clergy at Bishop’s Hostel, Farnham and was ordained Deacon at Winchester in 1913 and Priest at Southampton in 1914. He was appointed Curate of Farnham, 1913-17 and was the Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, 1917-20. He was also a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class, 1917-20, entering the France/Flanders theatre of war on 12 March 1918. Newman was Honorary Chaplain to the Forces, 1920-38. He was Chaplain and Assistant Master at St. Edmunds School, Hindhead, 1920-21 and at Trinity College, Glenalmond, 1921-34. At the latter school he was House Master of Patchells’, 1923-34. He was appointed Vicar of Thorpe Hamlet, 1934-36; and St. George Tombland with St. Simon & St. Jude, Norwich, 1936-40. Appointed Rector of St. Thomas, Stockport, 1940-45. From 1945 he was Chaplain to St. Winifred’s School, Llanfairfechan and was Licensed to Officiate in the Diocese of Bangor. Rev. Geoffrey Newman died on 26 November 1970.

With copied research including extracts from The Glenalmond Chronicle and photocopied photographs.