The John Chidzey Collection

British War Medal 1914-20 (W. H. Cormack) good very fine £60-80

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

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Wilfred Howard Cormack was born in Blackburn in 1887. He graduated from the University of Manchester with a B.A. in 1909 and gained an M.A. in 1910. He studied for the clergy at Whycliffe Hall, Oxford during 1910 and was ordained a Deacon in 1912 and a Priest, at Ripon, in 1913. His first appointment was as Curate of Holy Trinity, Ripon, 1912-15, then Curate of Thornthwaite with Braithwaite, Cumbria, 1916-19. During the war he served with the Church Army in Egypt and Palestine, 1917-18. He served as Curate of Christ Church Cockermouth, 1919-21, after which he was appointed Perpetual Curate of Mallerstang, 1921-24 and Mungrisdale, 1924-31. He was appointed Vicar of Bampton, 1931-49 (with Mardale from 1935). As such he led the last service to be held at the small church of the Holy Trinity at Mardale Green on 18 August 1935 - before it and the small village was ‘drowned’ when Haweswater lake was raised to form the expanded reservoir later in the year. He was Vicar of Leck, Diocese of Blackburn, from 1949.

With copied research, including m.i.c. which shows entry into Egypt with the Church Army in July 1917.