Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chaplain to the Forces the Reverend P. E. Lee, Royal Army Chaplains’ Department

1914-15 Star (Rev. P. E. Lee. A.C.D.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Rev. P. E. Lee); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, very fine (4) £140-£180

Provenance: Spink, May 1999.

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 July 1919.

Percy Erskine Lee was born in 1882 at Clapham, London, the son of John Lee and was educated at Westminster School and Queen’s College, Oxford. He was an Assistant Master at Dover College from 1906 to 1915 and was ordained deacon in 1912 and priest in 1914. He was Chaplain of Dover College from 1912 to 1915 and was appointed Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, on 30 July 1915, serving in France with the 8th Infantry Brigade on the Western Front from 1915 to 1917. He was appointed Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class on 7 November 1917 and was Senior Chaplain, 14th Division, 1917-1918 and Deputy Assistant Chaplain General, IVth Corps 1918-1919. He was Mentioned in General Haig’s Despatch of 16 March 1919. Later in 1919 he joined the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment and served at Fort William, Kasauli and Kidderpore 1920-36. He was Senior Chaplain (21 December 1927) and later Canon of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Calcutta. Lee returned to the U.K. in 1936 where he was Rector of Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset and a member of the Saint John Ambulance Brigade. He died in 1945.