Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Chaplain to the Forces Fourth Class the Reverend O. J. Loynes, Army Chaplains’ Department, later Second Lieutenant, Royal Air Force

British War and Victory Medals (Rev. O. J. Loynes.) contact marks, polished and worn, good fine (2) £80-£100

The Reverend Octavius John Loynes was born in 1877 and having taken Holy Orders served as Curate of St. Matthew’s, Moorfields, in the city and diocese of Bristol, from 1901 to 1903; Curate of Godstone in Surrey from 1903 to 1907; Curate of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, in the diocese of London, from 1907 to 1908; Chaplain, Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment, in the diocese of Lahore, from 1908 to 1909; Curate of St. Peter’s, Eaton Square, in the diocese of London, from 1910 to 1912; and Rector of Wyverstone in Suffolk from 1912 to 1922. Appointed Chaplain to the Forces, Fourth Class, Army Chaplains’ Department in 1914, he served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 April 1915 (also entitled to a 1914-15 Star). He subsequently enrolled as an Officer Cadet, Inns of Court Officer Training Corps, in 1918, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, being employed as a Technical Officer until relinquishing his commission in 1919. Post-War he served as Vicar of Bentley, in the diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, from 1922 to 1924; Rector of Warham St. Mary’s, with Warham All Saints’, in the diocese of Norwich, from 1924 to 1928; and Rural Dean of Walsingham, from 1924 to 1928. He died in 1932.