Lot Essay
Mention in Despatches London Gazette 10.7.1919.
The Reverend Percy Erskine Lee was born in February 1882 and educated at Westminster and Queen's College, Oxford. An Assistant Master at Dover College between 1906-15, he took Holy Orders in 1912 and was appointed a Chaplain 4th Class in the A.C.D. in July 1915. Serving with the 8th Infantry Brigade between 1915-17, and with 14th Division between 1917-18, he rose to be Deputy Assistant Chaplain-General of IV Corps in the following year. Lee next joined the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment and held various posts at Fort William, Kasauli and Kidderpore between 1920-36, gaining advancement to Senior Chaplain in December 1927 and appointment as Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral in Calcutta. Returning to the U.K. to become Rector of Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset, he died in October 1945.
The Reverend Percy Erskine Lee was born in February 1882 and educated at Westminster and Queen's College, Oxford. An Assistant Master at Dover College between 1906-15, he took Holy Orders in 1912 and was appointed a Chaplain 4th Class in the A.C.D. in July 1915. Serving with the 8th Infantry Brigade between 1915-17, and with 14th Division between 1917-18, he rose to be Deputy Assistant Chaplain-General of IV Corps in the following year. Lee next joined the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment and held various posts at Fort William, Kasauli and Kidderpore between 1920-36, gaining advancement to Senior Chaplain in December 1927 and appointment as Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral in Calcutta. Returning to the U.K. to become Rector of Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset, he died in October 1945.