The British War Medal to the Reverend C. B. Whitefoord, Chaplain to the Forces, Army Chaplain’s Department, attached 6th London Regiment, who died of wounds in France in May 1918

British War Medal 1914-20 (Rev. C. B. Whitefoord) extremely fine £50-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Military Awards from the Collection of John Tamplin.

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Charles Blairquahan Whitefoord was born on 5 January 1885, at Ludlow, Shropshire. He was educated at Rugby School, and Merton College, Oxford. He was received into the Catholic Church at Chartres Cathedral, and was for a year one of the clergy at the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Shrewsbury.

In the Great War he was granted a commission as a temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, in the Army Chaplain’s Department. He went out to the Western Front in the autumn of 1916, and was attached to the 6th (City of London) Battalion, the London Regiment (Rifles). On 29 May 1918, he had gone with an officer to find a grave in a village near the front line and, as they were returning, he was wounded by shell fire, and died the next day in the 3rd Canadian Hospital at Etaples. Sold with copied extract from Memorials of Rugbeians who fell in the Great War with portrait photograph.