Theodore Bayley Hardy VC DSO MC

In 1916, at the age of fifty four, a slight, short sighted, unassuming country vicar and local school master became an Army Chaplain.

Theodore Bayley Hardy was destined to become the most decorated non-combatant in the First World War. - - He was to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the D.S.O., and the M.C. - - By day he performed the usual priestly and chaplaincy tasks but by night he would work the trenches dropping in with his inimitable