The British War Medal awarded to Chaplain to the Forces Second Class the Reverend E. K....

The British War Medal awarded to Chaplain to the Forces Second Class the Reverend E. K. Talbot, M.C., Army Chaplains’ Department, who served as Chaplain to H.M. King George V, H.M. King Edward VIII, and H.M. King George VI British War Medal 1914-20 (Rev. E. K. Talbot.) very fine £100-£140 --- M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916. The Reverend Edward Keble Talbot was born on 31 December 1877, the son of Edward Stuart Talbot, the first Warden of Keble College, Oxford (and later Lord Bishop of Winchester), and was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. Ordained Priest in 1904, he was commissioned temporary Chaplain to the Forces, Fourth Class, on 21 August 1914, and served during the Great War on the Western Front at No. 7 Stationary Hospital from 23 August 1914. Advanced Chaplain to the Forces, Third Class, on 18 April 1916, and Chaplain to the Forces Second Class on 15 February 1918, for his services during the Great War he was awarded the Military Cross. He relinquished his commission in 1919. His brother also served during the Great War as a Chaplain to the Forces, and was also awarded the Military Cross. Talbot was appointed the Superior of the Community of the Resurrection, an Anglican religious community for men in Mirfield, Yorkshire, in 1922, a post he held until 1940. He was also appointed a Chaplain to H.M. King George V on 2 July 1920, an appointment he retained under both Edward VIII and George VI, until finally relinquishing his appointment in 1945. He died on 21 October 1949. Sold with copied research.