Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Fleet Chaplain the Reverend W. H. S. Chapman, Royal Navy

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (Chapn. Rev. W. H. S. Chapman R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Admiralty enclosure; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, edge bruise to NGS, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £240-£280

O.B.E. London Gazette 12 June 1958.

The Reverend William Henry Stanley Chapman was ordained at Durham Cathedral in December 1933, and was appointed Chaplain, Royal Navy, on 2 July 1935, first going to sea in H.M.S. Ajax. He served during the Great War as Chaplain at the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar from 1 July 1941, and was later Chaplain in H.M.S. Dryad, H.M.S. Eastney, and H.M.S. Raleigh, and was Chaplain to the Mediterranean Fleet at Malta. A Vice-President of the Trafalgar Club, he retired on 3 October 1963.