Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Chaplain to the Forces Fourth Class the Reverend C. W. W. Major, Army Chaplains’ Department, who died at Euskirchen in Germany on 19 March 1919

British War and Victory Medals (Rev. C. W. W. Major) good very fine (2) £80-£100

Charles William Wykeham Major was born in Salcombe in 1878 and is recorded in 1907 as Curate at Camborne in the Diocese of Truro, Cornwall. Transferred the following year to the Curacy of Furnham, Chard, Major was later appointed Temporary Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class on 14 October 1918. Posted to France on 29 October 1918, he died whilst serving as part of the British Army of the Rhine and is buried at Cologne Southern Cemetery.