Five: Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class T.H. Jacques, Army Chaplains Department, British War and Victory Medals (Rev.); General Service 1918-62, one clasp, Iraq (Rev.); Defence and War Medals, generally very fine or better and scarce (5)

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Five: Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class T.H. Jacques, Army Chaplains Department, British War and Victory Medals (Rev.); General Service 1918-62, one clasp, Iraq (Rev.); Defence and War Medals, generally very fine or better and scarce (5)

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The Reverend Thomas Hebert Jacques completed his education at Durham University and took Holy Orders in 1916. Appointed a Chaplain 4th Class in the A.C.D. towards the end of the Great War, he was advanced to Honorary Chaplain to the Forces in 1922 and served as a Chaplain at Bagdad between 1924-26. Placed on the Reserve of Officers in 1929, he returned to military service between 1941-45 and was latterly the Vicar of Thurnham and Detling, near Canterbury.