Padre, Prisoner and Pen-Pusher - Howson Peter
Padre, Prisoner and Pen-Pusher - Howson Peter Few army chaplains had as varied a career during the First World War as the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke. He went to France with 4 Field Ambulance where he…
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Padre, Prisoner and Pen-Pusher - Howson Peter
Few army chaplains had as varied a career during the First World War as the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke. He went to France with 4 Field Ambulance where he was taken prisoner by the Germans at the end of August 1914. A regular army chaplain who had seen service in the Boer War he was mobilized with 54 other chaplains at the start of hostilities.
Returning to France he served as frontline chaplain before being posted to serve as a staff chaplain to the Deputy Chaplain General. He was repatriated in July 1915 and wrote a book of his experiences. Posted back to the UK in June 1918 he died on 25th December 1918 during the flu epidemic.
The central part of the book is a transcription of the diary he kept during January to June 1918. At the heart of the administration of Church of England chaplaincy on the Western Front he recorded an inside view of how chaplains were thinking, particularly
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