As the campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula ground on during the summer months of 1915, The Tablet published several accounts of the fighting, including these concerning the plight of chaplains
ON 3 JULY 1915, The Tablet published this appreciation by an Anglican chaplain, H.C. Foster, of a Catholic priest, Fr William Joseph Finn, who died on the first day of the landings on the Gallipoli peninsula – “the first chaplain to be killed in action in the present war”. “Father Finn’s blameless character and the geniality of his disposition endeared him to all who came in contact with him. To see him quietly at work amongst his own men of the Dublin Fusiliers (1st Battalion) gave one the clue as to why this courageous priest was so respected and beloved. “He a
23 April 2015, The Tablet
Priests at war
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