Scarce WW1 Medal Trio to Reverand Bonsey ACD.

WW1 1914/15 star, British war and victory medal all correctly named to Reverand Hugh Richmond Bonsey.
Hugh was born on 21st August 1885 in Hatfield Hertfordshire. He was the son of Reverand William Bonsey of Hatfield.
He was educated at University Collage Oxford and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1910 and Master of Arts in 1913. He also studied at the Wells Theological Collage in 1911. He married Ruth Marcia Gaussen in December 1914, in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter.
Reverand Bonsey enlisted into the Royal Army Chaplains Department in 1914 taking a position on 2nd October 1914. He was posted to France in the May of 1915 as a Chaplain 4th Class (Captain) with the 42nd Infantry Brigade, 14th Light Division.
Over 5,000 Army Chaplains served in the Great war. Most received little or no training and were often ill-prepared for the situations in which they found themselves, they brought comfort and compassion to troops in desperate times, many spending long hours in casualty clearing stations, offering some hope to badly injured men.
The brigade saw action at Hooge, in which the division had the terrible misfortune to be the first to be attacked by flamethrower. The battles of the Somme in 1916 including the battle of Delville Wood and Flers-Courcelette. In 1917 was just as hard with the battles of Arras and the 3rd Ypres at the 1st and 2nd battles of Passchendaele. And in early 1918 the division was virtually decimated losing around 6,000 troops in defensive fighting against Operation Michael.
A wonderful Trio which comes in excellent original condition and is accompanied with various copied paperwork and a beautiful original photograph of Reverand Bonsey taken just before the war.

Code: 29941