Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain the Reverend A. C. Gaul, South African Infantry, later Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment

1914-15 Star (Pte. A. C. Gaul 12th Infantry); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Capt. A. C. Gaul.) polished, very fine (3) £80-£100

The Reverend Arthur Cecil Gaul was born in 1880 and having taken Holy Orders served as Curate of St. Saviour’s, Roath, in the diocese of Llandaff, from 1904 to 1910; Assistant Curate of St. Paul’s Church, Rondebosch, from 1910 to 1912; and Assistant Priest, St. Saviour’s Church, Claremont, from 1912 to 1916. Unable to secure appointment as a Chaplain to the Forces, he attested as a Private in the 12th Infantry (Pretoria Regiment) in November 1914, and served on operations in German South West Africa until discharged from the Army in 1915. Commissioned temporary Chaplain (Captain), 1st South African Infantry Brigade Reserves, 1916, he proceeded to England, and crossed to France at the end of the year to serve on attachment with the 1st South African Infantry Regiment. Released from the Army in June 1917, he joined the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment in April 1918, took up a posting to the diocese of Bombay, and proceeded to serve as Assistant Chaplain at Deolali, 1918 and as Chaplain at Crater in Aden from 1918 to 1920; at Mount Abu, from 1921 to 1923; at Deolali and Poona, from 1923 to 1925; at Ahmednagar in 1925; at Belgaum from 1925 to 1928; at Holy Trinity, Bangalore, from 1928 to 1931; and at St. Stephen’s, Ootacamund, from 1932 to 1934. He moved to the diocese of Madras to become Chaplain at St. George’s, Wellington in 1934. He retired from the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment in October 1935, and served as Rector of St. Nicholas’, Ashmore, near Salisbury, from 1939 to 1944. He died in 1959.