Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Chaplain H. S. Fry, O.B.E., Royal Navy, M.I.D., H.M.S. “Ceylon”, the only award for Korea to a Naval Chaplain
The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 2nd type; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals; Korea 1950-53, M.I.D. (Chapn., R.N.); U.N. Korea, mounted as worn, very fine and better (7)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals Relating to the Korean War 1950-53.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 3 October,1952, “for distinguished service in operations in Korean waters”:- The Reverend Hugh Selwyn Fry, Chaplain, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Ceylon.
O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January, 1963.
Hugh Selwyn Fry was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1930, M.A. 1934; Chaplain, R.N.V.R., 1943-47; Chaplain, R.N., 1947-63. Chaplain of the cruiser Ceylon which, together with the Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier Unicorn, conveyed the first British troops (1 A&SH and 1 Middx. respectively) to land in Korea, at Pusan on 29 August, 1950. The Reverend Fry injured his leg in Korea. After retiring from the Royal Navy in 1963 he became Vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale, Faringdon, Berkshire, and died in 1989.