Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (Rev. A. Outram.) with top ‘1908’ silver brooch bar, good very fine £60-£80

The Reverence Arthur Outram was born on 27 September 1871, the third son of Sir Francis Outram, Bt., and the grandson of Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, of Indian Mutiny fame, and was educated at Haileybury and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Ordained Deacon in 1897, and Priest in 1899, he served with the C.M.S. Missionary Service in Rajputana, India from 1897 to 1904, and was awarded the Kaiser-in-Hind Medal in 1901. Returning to England, he served as Rector of Lillingstone Dayrell, Buckinghamshire, from 1912 to 1923, and with the Army Chaplains’ Department during the Great War in the Hospital Ship in the Mediterranean from 8 September 1917. He later served as Rector of Great Braxted, Essex, from 1923 to 1928, and died on 18 March 1937.

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