Tag: Chaplains
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Captain Samuel Wilkinson in the Great War
Chaplains Honourary Captain Samuel Wilkinson, a Methodist minister, served with the 79th Battalion, 67th Pioneer Battalion, 4th Canadian Divisional Train, 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital, and finally No 15 Canadian General Hospital during the Great War. Born in Tobley, Chesire, England, his family immigrated to Canada in 1870 and settled at Ingersoll, Ontario. He arrived in…
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HCol John Macpherson Almond in the Great War
During the Great War, HCol John Macpherson Almond CMG CBG DSO would become Assistant Director and later Director of the Canadian Chaplain Service with the rank of Honorary Colonel. Several tours at the front, and with Canadian Military Forces in England and Canada. Almond sought to improve the reputation of Canadian Military Chaplains and would…
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Capitaine-Abbé Georges Crochetière in the Great War
Capitaine-Abbé Georges Étienne Rosario Crochetière the only member of the Canadian Chaplain Service killed-in-action during the Great War. Rosaire Crochetière, the beloved chaplain of the Royal 22e Régiment, died instantly in an artillery barrage near Flanders, on 2 April 1918. Padre Crochetière described by the men of his regiment like a father, a brother, a confidant,…
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Alberta from Albert in the Great War
The war time service of a brindle bull terrier Alberta, much respected in life, honoured in death Excerpts from The Great War As I Saw It by Lieutenant-Colonel Canon Frederick George Scott reveal the story of Alberta from Albert, a brindle bull terrier found by the Reverend on the Somme in the town of Albert.…
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Captain Robert Pearson, Y.M.C.A. in the Great War
Captain Robert Pearson, of the Y.M.C.A., severely wounded in action during the Battle of Courcelette on 8 September 1916. With a bullet still remaining in his thorax, Pearson returned to the Y.M.C.A. He also served with the 49th, 28th and 31st Battalions. He returned for a short visit to Canada in early 1918, and spoke…
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Major George Anderson Wells, CMG, DD in the Great War
The Right Reverend George Anderson Wells, CMG, DD was the second Bishop of Cariboo. Wells was a fisherman, sealer, labourer, and a trooper in the South African War before continuing his education at various American institutions. During the Great War, appointed Senior Chaplain to the Canadian Corps on 27 December 1917. Early Life Born at…
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Captain William Henry Davis MC in the Great War
During the Great War, 524 clergymen served in the Canadian Chaplain Service. Of this number 447 served overseas, and a number of those chaplains served with distinction, such as George Anderson Wells, an Anglican priest, who finished the war as the most decorated chaplain in the British Commonwealth. Other chaplains who paid the supreme sacrifice,…
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Bishop Michael Francis Fallon in the Great War
Before the Great War, Michael Francis Fallon 1613 was a member of the Non-Permanent Active Militia. Michael Francis Fallon was the first-born of Dominic Fallon and Bridget Egan Fallon. They had immigrated from Ireland to settle in Kingston, Canada West. Roman Catholic Bishop Michael Francis Fallon, was born at Kingston, on 17 May 1867. Fallon…
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Honorary Captain Charles Valentine Lester in the Great War
Chaplain and Honorary Captain Reverend Charles Valentine Lester, was born on 2 April 1877 in Kingsbridge, Ontario. He had four years prior service as a volunteer Lance-Sergeant in Devonshire. He was living at 158 Elgin Street, Brantford, Ontario, just across the street from St. Luke’s Anglican Church. His parents lived at 21 Brock Street, Bath,…