A Great War M.C. attributed to The Reverend J. L. G. Hill, Army Chaplains’ Department, attached to the 6th (Service) Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment), and Army Chaplain with the 12th Division Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, in Royal Mint leather case of issue, in O.H.M.S. envelope addressed to ‘Rev. J. L. G. Hill, M.C., C/O Mrs Taylor, East View, W. Zetland Street, Northallerton, Yorks’, nearly extremely fine £500-£700 --- M.C. London Gazette 15 October 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry during an attack. He followed close in rear of the assaulting columns, and remained in front during the whole operations and visited all parts of the captured line, greatly cheering the wounded and all ranks. Throughout he showed fine courage and devotion to duty.’ The Reverend Canon James Llewellyn Grice Hill was born in Barrow-in-Furness in 1890, and was educated at Denstone College and Keble College, Oxford. He served during the Great War with the Army Chaplains’ Department, attached 6th (Service) Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment) on the Western Front. After the war Canon Hill was the Vicar of Hawes for 50 years, retiring in 1980, and dying the following year aged 90. Sold with a Photograph of recipient; named War Office enclosure for award; hand-written note with a pressed flower - worded ‘This decoration represents the saving of a life under heavy gunfire during the 1914-18 War by a padre who shouldn’t have been in the front line anyway. It was given to me by JLGH’; and 2 passes relating to Denstone College.