M.C. London Gazette 23.4.1918 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in going fearlessly during four days to all parts of the battlefield, cheering the wounded and comforting the dying. No post was too dangerous and no shelling too heavy for him'.

The Reverend Gerald Hollidge Harries, M.C., who studied at St. John's College, Cambridge and Wells Theological College, took Holy Orders in 1897. Spending his formative years in the Church as a Priest at St. James's, Grimsby, he was appointed Vicar of St. Peter's and St. Paul's, Burgh-le-Marsh in Lincolnshire in 1908, which office he occupied until 1931, with the exception of war service in the A.C.D. between 1915-19. Harries was latterly Vicar of St. Martin's and St. Peter's, Lincoln.