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LIEUTENANT THE REVEREND PHILIP BASIL PHELPS, ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE:
British War Medal; Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. RNVR.); Silver War Badge Number RN.28282 : (PHILIP BASIL PHELPS - Born at Ashford, Kent in 1888: He attended Downing College, Cambridge from 1908: BA. 1911; MA. 1915: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society 1915: Attended Ripon Clerical College, Cuddesdon, Oxford: Ordained Deacon 1912; Priest 1913; Curate of Melton Mowbray 1912-14; St.Mary, Boltons, South Kensington and Chaplain of Hospital for Incurable Children, South Hampstead 1916-18; Served Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve1918; Organising Secretary Mission to Seamen, for Southern District 1918-56; Senior Organising Secretary 1956-62; Resided Chelsea, London and lastly at Swanmore, Southampton, Hampshire; Final entry in Crockford's Clerical Directory is for 1967-68: Temporary Lieutenant RNVR. 16 May 1918, for Navigational duties appointed to HMS.'Queen', Taranto, additional on the staff of General Staff Officer (Naval) at Brindisi, Italy: On 5 July 1918 sent to HMS.'Haslar' and was admitted suffering with neurasthenia: Invalided from the service on 25 July 1918: Temporary Commission terminated from 27 July 1918 as 'physically unfit for further service': Awarded Silver War Badge: Author of "Pen Pictures Of The Mediterranean", published by Waterlow & Sons Ltd. in 1933: He died in 1968.) A most unusual group awarded to a Clergyman who chose to serve not as a Naval Chaplain, but volunteered as an ordinary Naval Officer: Sold with verification; copy Service Papers; copy entry Crockford's Clerical Directory; nice clean copy of the book, 'Pen Pictures Of The Mediterranean' and related research: GVF - £295