I have been trying to find out about this Reverend .... I have just found snippets ... can anybody add anything ? I heard the Rev. Pierrepont Edwards ( 1/5th Suffolk Regiment ? ) on the 12th August ( Gallipoli ) when 11 Officers and 178 N.C.O.’s and men were killed, wounded or missing .... the Reverend was in charge of a volunteer stretcher-party and was commended for the Military Cross http://theartistandthetartist.blogspot.com/2008/12/jack-frost-fighting-parson.html There's a book I have to try and get ...... Old Spiery - Mersea's "Fighting Parson" by Mary Stevens A true account of the Rev. Charles Pieriepont Edwards MC Vicar of the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul - West Mersea - 1898 - 1946
Re: Rev. Charles Pieriepont Edwards MC I forgot to add his Medal Card ... Edwards, Charles Pierrepont Army Chaplain's Department attached Suffolk Regiment Chaplain 4th Class Attached Royal Artillery Chaplain Reverend Date 1914-1920 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...asp?Edoc_Id=3621795&queryType=1&resultcount=1
Re: Rev. Charles Pieriepont Edwards MC And look at this gate .... how cool is that ? http://theartistandthetartist.blogspot.com/2008/12/jack-frost-fighting-parson.html
He must have left a comfortable job to volunteer as an army chaplain - he can't have been that young if he was a vicar in 1898. If the film "All the King's Men" is the one I think they mean, it was a TV movie shown a few years back, and possibly one of the worst I have seen - an anti-establishment rant that ticked all the cliches
