Pair: Chaplain to the Forces The Reverend H. E. Sexton, Australian Imperial Force, later Archbishop of British Columbia, Canada

British War and Victory Medals (Chaplain. H. E. Sexton. A.I.F.) generally very fine or better (2) £200-£300

Harold Eustace Sexton was born in Adelaide, Australia in May 1888. He was educated at the Collegiate School of St. Peter, Adelaide, Trinity College, Dublin and Keble College, Oxford. Sexton was ordained deacon in 1911, and priest in 1912, in the diocese of Ballarat, Australia. He volunteered to serve overseas with the Australian Imperial Force as an Army Chaplain, and embarked at Adelaide, South Australia aboard HMAT Berrima, 16 December 1916.

Sexton served in France, and after the war studied at Oxford for a year before returning to Australia and becoming the Vicar of St. Martin’s Church, Melbourne. He then returned to England, and served as Curate of St. Margaret’s, Westminster (1925-27), and Vicar of All Saints, Canterbury for seven years. Sexton also served as Commissary in England for the Bishop of Jamaica, 1927-31. He was elected Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of British Columbia, Canada in February 1935. Sexton also served as Archdeacon of Columbia until he became the sixth Bishop of the Diocese in the 1936, a position he was to hold until 1968. He was the first Bishop to be consecrated in Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, British Columbia, and was elected the fourth Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia in April 1952 (also becoming Archbishop of the Diocese of British Columbia in the process). Sexton resigned from his position in January 1969, and died at his home in Victoria in March 1972.

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