Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Reverend C. P. N. Rowband, Royal Army Chaplains Department

British War and Victory Medals (Rev.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (Rev.) fine (3) £220-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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Charles Percy Nott Rowband was born in 1881. He graduated from Keble College, Oxford, gaining a B.A. in 1903 and a M.A. in 1920. Attended Cudd College in 1903. Ordained a Deacon in 1904 at Worcester and a Priest in 1906 in Birmingham. Curate of King’s Norton, 1904-10; Sutton Coldfield, 1910-13, and Acock’s Green. 1913-17. Then served in the R.A. Chaplain’s Department as a Chaplain 4th Class. Entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in January 1918 and served as Chaplain attached to the 57th Division and later as Chaplain attached to the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment. Served as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 1917-29; Honorary Chaplain to the Forces, 1929; Chaplain to R.A.F. Gosport, 1929-31; Aboukir, 1931-34; Mildenhall, 1935; and Uxbridge, 1935-37. Appointed Licensed Officiate to the Diocese of Chichester, 1938; Chaplain at Kurseong, 1938-43; at Nagpur, 1944-45; at Kolar Gold Field, Mysore, 1945-51, and Coonoor, 1951-56. Was appointed Chaplain of South India, 1946-60, and was permitted to Officiate in the Diocese of Exeter from 1969. The Rev. Rowband died in Yelverton, Devon on 15 September 1979. With copied research.