The Army Chaplains
Comments: Gallantry awards, Killed in action, Infection exposure in Hospitals
 
Chaplains are the only British Army officers who do not carry standard officer ranks. They are officially designated Chaplain to the Forces (CF) (e.g. "The Reverend John Smith CF"). They do, however, have grades which equate to the standard ranks and wear the insignia of the equivalent rank. Chaplains are usually addressed as "Padre", never by their nominal military rank.
Chaplain-General (CG) = Major-General
Deputy Chaplain-General (DCG) = Brigadier
Chaplain to the Forces 1st Class (CF1) = Colonel
Chaplain to the Forces 2nd Class (CF2) = Lieutenant-Colonel
Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class (CF3) = Major
Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class (CF4) = Captain
The senior Church of England Chaplain is ranked within the church hierarchy as an Archdeacon. The Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain (usually a CF1) is normally ranked as a Monsignor.
 
The Rev William David ABBOTT
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 3 December 1918 at no. 5 British Red Cross A Stationary Hospital in Dieppe. He was 35.
He was the son of the late Rev David Wyley Abbott, Vicar of Cardington, Shropshire and the husband of Ruby Abbott, 75 Mauldeth Road, Withington, Manchester
He is buried in grave I A 1 Janval Cemetery, Dieppe
Additional information
His address for probate was 75 Mauldeth Road, Withington West, Manchester Crockfords
 
The Rev Armar Edward ACTON      MiD 
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 2nd Battalion, The Border Regiment
He died of his wounds on 4 November 1917. He was 28
He was the son of Maud J and the late Lieutenant Colonel J L C Acton (1st Battalion Connaught Rangers)
He is buried in grave IV L 2 Wimereux Communal Cemetery
He was born in Galway
His address for probate was Dunmore, Glengeary Crockfords
 
The Rev Frederick William AINLEY
Chaplain 4th Class attached to Chaplain General’s Office, Boulogne
He died from natural causes on 5 December 1918
He is buried in grave XII B 23 Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille near Boulogne.
Additional information
The Rev W P AINLEY
QUOTE
Death of Rev WP Ainley
To many of our readers especially in the St Paul’s district, The Rev WP Ainley will be remembered as a former curate of St Paul’s where he laboured for about 2 years and left last year with the intention of proceeding to the Mission Field in China. The outbreak of war led to a change in his plans and Mr Ainley became an Army chaplain at Aldershot where he unfortunately contracted spotted fever (today this might be called Typhoid). He lay in a prostrate condition being affected mentally as well as physically but a change for the better came and it was hoped that the Rev gentleman would pull through. A change for the worse however set in and Mr Ainley passed away on Wednesday. (13 Oct 1915) The sad news was conveyed to his father the Rev FW Ainley vicar of Uffington, Lincs who at the time was at Bath taking part in a series of devotional meetings.
The Rev Ainley was much liked during his curacy at St Paul’s where he laboured with much acceptance and when he left the esteem of the parishioners was expressed in a presentation being made to him. The Rev gentleman was a keen supported of missionary work and he stated before leaving St Paul’s that his missionary spirit was intensified at an exhibition held in Chippenham about 3 years ago and it was then that he made the resolve to go to China. A resolve which death has now prevented being put into practice and all will regret the cutting short of a promising career
Wilts Times 16 October 1915
 
The Rev John ASH
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 48th Division Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery.
He was killed in his billet through bombing by aeroplanes on 7 September 1917. He was 37.
He is buried in grave IX H 26 Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery
Additional information
John Ash was a Methodist minister and he was Chaplain for the Free Churches at the Red Cross Hospital, Northwood House, Cowes, Isle of Wight before becoming a Chaplain to the Forces on 16 January 1917.
He lived at Dailima, Newport Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight although his wife Mary had moved to No 8 Campbell Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne when he joined the Army.
 
Atkins Leslie Gordon son of a Wesleyan Minister LT London Reg so not a Chaplain U
 
The Rev Ernest AVENT        MiD
Chaplain 2nd Class
He died at the Military Hospital, York on 25 August 1920. He was 44
He was the son of the Rev John Avent and Alice Avent, Broughton Rectory, Oxfordshire and the husband of Jessica May Avent, Woodbrae, Curzon Park, Chester
He is buried in grave A 10 Fulford Cemetery
Additional Information:
He was educated at Hunstanton, Felsted  and Caius College, Cambridge BA 1897; MA 1906. He was ordained deacon (Liverpool) 1899; priest, 1901; Curate of St Thomas's, Ashton in Makerfield, Curate of St James's, Birkdale. He was appointed as Chaplain to the Forces, at Woolwich; then in Gibraltar; then he was posted to the Garrison Church, Arbour Hill, Dublin. Finally he joined the British Expeditionary Force, to the 71st Division, 1917. He was wounded.
 
The Rev George William BAILE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 64th Casualty Clearing Station
He died from natural causes on 27 January 1918. He was 52
He was
He is buried in grave XXVIII E 10 Étaples Military Cemetery
Additional information
His only surviving son Captain J Baile, Royal Engineers was present at his funeral
BA He had spent 14 years as a Chaplain in Pernambuco, Brazil
 
The Rev Thomas Leo BAINES
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 152nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
He died from his wounds on 31 May 1918. He was 31
He was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Baines of Preston, Lancashire
He is buried in grave III B 29 Aire Communal Cemetery
Additional information
Address for probate 165 St George’s Road Preston
Not least by Preston Catholic Priest Thomas Leo Baines, the only chaplain listed on the Harris Museum Roll of Honour.
Father Baines was a temporary chaplain to forces in northern France from 1917, based in the Army Chaplains' Department tied to the Royal Field Artillery.
Previously he studied for 18 years at Ushaw Northern Seminary College, where he became a professor. He was also parish priest at St Francis of Assisi RC Church in Garston, Liverpool, where his name features on a memorial today.
But on May 31, 1918, aged 31, he became an early casualty of a new wartime danger – aerial bombardment. Germans hit his base at Aire Casualty Clearing Station, near St Omer.
Father Ron Johnson, current priest of St Francis, explains: "An eyewitness said at 2.30am that morning he was taken to the field hospital. He had been bombed by a German plane.
"He had a bad wound on one hand, multiple other wounds all over his body and his leg above the knee was totally shattered. He was so shocked by the pain they could not operate."
Death ended his pain at 2 pm.
Fr Johnson adds: "All denominations paid tribute to a perfect Christian who had priest written all over him and was so loving."
Father Baines was ordained at the English Martyrs' Church in Garstang Road, Preston on August 8, 1915.
He says: "He is the only chaplain on the Harris Roll of Honour and I hope to find more out
Father Baines was buried at the Aire Communal Cemetery, close to where he was killed.
 
The Rev James BAIRD
Chaplain 4th Class
He died in the 3rd Stationary Canadian Hospital, St Omer from natural causes on 13 February 1919
He is buried in grave V F 20 Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery, St Omer
Additional information
Canadian Hospital His address for probate was 138 Hockley Hill Birmingham
 
The Rev Edward Walter BARKER
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 176th Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Artillery
He died in a Casualty Clearing Station on 18 March 1918 from the wounds he had received on 9 March. He was 30.
He was the son of Emily Barker, 12 Cadwell Road, Paignton, Devon, and the late Henry Edward Barker 
He is buried in grave II C 13 Achiet le Grand Communal Cemetery Extension
Additional information
He was educated at Bedford Grammar, Queens College, Cambridge, History Tripos 1910
He was ordained 1911, appointed Curate, St John’s, Notting Hill then Chagford, Devon and St Luke’s Torquay
 
The Rev Charles Lees BEDALE
Chaplain 4th Class at the 1st Eastern Military Hospital, Cambridge
He died of influenza on 8 March 1919 at 1st Eastern General Hospital. He was 39
He was the son of Thomas A and M Bedale of Eccles, Manchester and the husband of Dorothy R Bedale, Fieldside, Barton Road, Cambridge
He is buried in grave 24 B 26 Histon Road Cemetery, Cambridge
Additional information
He had been educated at Eccles and then Manchester Grammarfollowed by Clare College, Cambridge reading Classics and Theology. MA Then he was a Tutor at Didsbury before enlisting. He had been wounded on the Western Front
He was a Wesleyan Minister and his address for probate was Woodhurst< Madingley Road, Cambridge
 
The Rev Robert Henry BELCHER
Chaplain 4th Class
25 October 1916. He was 72
Husband of the late Katherine Belcher
Lewes Cemetery
Additional information
Not in SWD His address for probate was St Michael’s Rectory, Lewes Need to check census
Robert Henry Belcher was born in 1846 in Saltash, Cornwall, the son of physician John Belcher. He attended the University of London earning a B.A. (1867), an M.A. (1868), and an LL.D. (1879). Belcher was ordained in the Church of England and held a number of clerical posts: master and chaplain of King's College, London (1874–86); rector of Otago high school, Dunedin, New Zealand (1886–95); and rector of St. Michael, Lewes. In 1868 he married Katherine Emily Beard (died 1894). Belcher wrote two novels: Cramleigh College (1874) about a boys' school and The "Bonny Kate": A Story of Adventure (1876). He died in 1916 in Lewes.
 
The Rev Charles Henry BELL           MC
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 1st Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment)
He was killed on the battlefield on 23 August 1918. He was 30
He was the son of the Rev Canon James Bell and Mrs Bell of Kettlethorpe. He was born at North Somercotes, Lincolnshire
He is buried in grave II G 10 Douchy-Les-Ayette British Cemetery
Additional information
His address for probate was The Grove, Lincoln
 
The Rev Arnold John BENNETT     MC
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 230th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.
He died of natural causes on 26 January 1918 at El Arish, Egypt. He was 34
He was the son of Arnold and Annette M Bennett, The Woodlands, Parkstone
Dorset Native of Wincanton, Somerset
He is buried in grave E 135 Kantara War Memorial Cemetery
Additional information
His address for probate was The Woodlands Parkstone
Saugeen School Bournemouth
Boer War with Baden-Powell’s Constabulary
1908 ordained from Salisbury Theological College
Curate at Pewsey,
Missionary in Canada returning in 1916 as Chaplain to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment before transferring to Egypt
 
The Rev Umberto Michael Francis Joseph BERTINI
Chaplain 4th Class
Trade  Dom
He died from natural causes on 29 September 1918. He was 33
O S B Order of St Benedict
He was the son of Ernesto R Bertini and Palmyra Adele Bertini of Novara and Bournemouth
He is buried to the north side of the Church in Farnborough Abbey Roman Catholic Churchyard
Additional information
flu Born at Novara, Italy. Probate address The Lindens, Christchurch Road, Boscombe Roman Catholic Chaplain to the Forces
 
The Rev George Bernard Hamilton BISHOP
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 6th Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers
He was killed on the battlefield on 27 May 1918. He was
He was the husband of Dorothy Maud Bishop
He is remembered on the Soissons Memorial
Additional information
His address for probate was The Vicarage, Cardington, near Church Stretton, Shropshire
Catherine Charlotte Bishop   Married 1913
The Revd. George B H Bishop was Vicar of Cardington, and was presented to the Living in 1914, having been ordained in 1911. He had been an enthusiastic Volunteer, and had served in the Durham University OTC (where he was a member of the Guard of Honour at the Coronation of King George V) and The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was Diocesan Secretary for the A & E Churches Union and an author on religion in Russia.
He attended the King's School, Gloucester and Durham University where he was a rowing coach. He was highly praised in a report into a boating accident on 24 February 1911 for his actions which were responsible for the saving of a man's life.
An extract from the vicar's (ie George Bishop's) letter in the Parish Messenger of December 1915:-
However, in July 1917 he was appointed an Army Chaplain (4th Class). His last signature as Vicar in the St. James Church Registers was on 14 January 1917 when he officiated at the baptism of Ernest Alfred Pugh of Upper Farm Enchmarsh.
He was killed in action on 27 May 1918 whilst attached as Chaplain to the 6th Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers. This was during an artillery bombardment of the trenches to which they were subjected at about 10.00 am, at Concevreux. This was the opening move of the Third Battle of the Aisne, when the German forces launched a large attack and carried the Chenin des Dames ridge. His death is commemorated on the Soissons Memorial (Aisne).
See photo on http://www.cardington.org.uk/Wardead/GBHBishop.html
 
The Rev William BLACK
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 10 July 1918. He was 27
He was the son of Mary Vera and the late Mr Samuel Black, Aldouran, Newlands, Glasgow Assistant Minister at Govan and Kilmalcolm Parish Churches
He is buried in grave I E 36 Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille near Boulougne
His address for probate was his parents address MA
 
The Rev William Duncan Thomson BLACK
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 7th Battalion, The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
He was killed on the battlefield on 22 August 1917. He was 36
He was the husband of Jenny L Black, 10 Leven Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow
He is buried in grave II A 18 Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No 3
 
The Rev Philip John Thomas BLAKEWAY
Chaplain 1st Class attached to 1st County of London Yeomanry Middlesex, (Duke of Cambridge's Hussars) and 4th Mounted Brigade, 2nd Mounted Division, British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force
He died on 16 June 1915. He was 50 
He was the son of Philip and Maria Blakeway; husband of Sybil/Sibyl Agnes Blakeway, The Cottage, Halnaker, Chichester 
He is buried in grave A 108 Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery
Additional information
M A His address for probate was Walberton Vicarage, Arundel  Left 15,359 not in swd
 
The Rev Vincent Coke BODDINGTON
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 35th General Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps
He died from natural causes on 13 March 1917. He was 30
He was the son of Arthur Onslow Boddington and Dora Boddington and the husband of Florence Garrett Boddington
He is buried in grave Spec Plot 23 Churchyard St Sebastian Wokingham
Additional information
His address for probate was 25 Victoria Road, Shoreham, Sussex
 
The Rev Edward Keightley BOTWOOD
Chaplain 4th Class
Not in swd He died at Le Fort, Sark on 28 July 1916. He was 44
He was the husband of Gwendoline A  Botwood,  Sandford Hall, St  David's, Exeter
He is buried North of Church Tower St Giles Churchyard, Kilmington, Axminster
Additional information
 
The Rev William BROWN
Chaplain 4th Class
He died at Pembroke Lodge, Kennington on 10 March 1919. He was 28
He was the son of William and Mary Brown, 1 Mons Avenue, Hebburn-on-Tyne, Co Durham and the husband of Fanny Louisa Brown 44 St Michael's Road, Aldershot.
He is buried in grave AG 395 Aldershot Military Cemetery
Additional Information
Curate of All Saint's Church, Hertford
Native of Bishop Auckland, Co Durham
 
The Rev Cyril Bernard Wilson BUCK         MC
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 1st/5th Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment
He was killed on the battlefield on 29 September 1918. He was 38
He was the son of William Richard and Alice Emmeline Buck, Tabards, Ewell, Surrey
He is buried in grave V C 6 Busigny Communal Cemetery Extension
Additional information
His address for probate was Cathedral House, Hew Hall Street, Birmingham
Educated at Merchant Taylors (Captain of Rugby) Trinity College 1907 Ordained 1910 Chaplain Birmingham Street Children’s Union and Curate off Cathedral
He was hit by shrapnel when he was trying to rescue soldiers from a tank
London Gazette 7 March 1919, awarded a Military Cross –
Citation in the Supplement to the London Gazette dated 4 October 1919:
“Rev. Cyril Bernard Wilson Buck, T./Chap.to the Forces, 4th Class, R.A.C.D., attd. l/5th
Bn., Leic. R., T.F.
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Pontruet during the attack on the village on 24th September,1918. He worked all day at the R.A.P. under heavy shell fire, helping the medical officer, carrying stretchers, cheering the wounded, and giving invaluable assistance. On the 29th September, 1918, he was killed during operations round the St. Quentin Canal, north of Bellenglise. He behaved splendidly”
I am indebted to Brian Bouchard for this information
 
 
The Rev Matthew Forster BURDESS
Chaplain, 4th Class attached to 1st/6th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment
He was killed on the battlefield on 18 April 1917. He was 39
He was the son of George and Rachel Ann Burdess Rector of St Thomas', Port Clarence, Middlesbrough Born at Sunderland
He is buried in grave D 50 Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery
 
The Rev Joseph Dobson BURNS
Chaplain, 4th Class attached to The Royal Garrison Artillery
He died of his wounds on 7 June 1918
He was Scottish non conform
He was the son of Joseph and Helen Burns and the husband of Mary C Burns, 2 Denwick Terrace, Tynemouth, Northumberland
He is buried in grave II D 11 Ebblinghem Military Cemetery
 
The Rev James Leitch CAPPELL
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 1st/9th Battalion, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
He died from natural causes on 23 January 1918. He was 41
He was the son of Thomas and Mary Cappell, of Crieff, Perthshire and the husband of Alice E Cappell, Vine House, Revidge Road, Blackburn, Lancashire
He is buried in grave Div 62 I O 4 Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre
Check cemetery 40 Forest Road, Birmingham In the 1911 census he is a clergyman of the Established Church in Blackburn
 
The Rev Timothy S J CAREY
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 27 February 1919 at no. 35 General Hospital, Calais. He was 41.
He was the son of Patrick and Mary Carey of Co Limerick.
He is buried near the west end of the Churchyard at Audruicq near Calaisl
Additional information
His address for probate was Milltown Park, Dublin.
 
CHADWICK
 
The Rev William Gerard CHEESE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 8th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
He died from natural causes on 7 November 1918. He was 35.
He was the son of the late James and Emily Cheese and the brother of Bertha F Cheese, Roslin, White Knole Road, Buxton
He is buried in grave S V G 6 St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen
Additional information
His address for probate was Duddington Vicarage, Stamford, Lincolnshire
 
The Rev Stephen CLARKE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 9th Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers ?7th bn
He was killed on the battlefield on 4 October 1917
He is remembered panel 160 of the Tyne Cot Memorial
 
The Rev Frederick Walter CLEVELAND    MC, Mid
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 1st/6th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment)
He died of his wounds on 11 October 1918. He was 30
He was the son of the late Samuel G and Eliza Cleveland of Margate
He is buried in grave S V C 2 St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen
Additional information
His address for probate was 56 Lausanne Road, Hornsey
He trained at Mirfield and Lichfield and was a Curate at Christ Church, Tunstall and Porthill, Staffordshire. He then undertook Mission Work in the Potteries before being appointed Senior Curate at St Peter's, Hornsey, 1915 ?MCN
 
The Rev Elijah COBHAM     MC
Chaplain 4th Class attached to The King's African Rifles
He died on 19 September 1917 from the wounds he had previously received at Mihambia in German East Africa. He was 37
He was the son of John and Martha Ann Cobham, of Waterloo, Liverpool and Crowborough.
He is buried in grave 5 A 15 Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery
Additional information
He was educated at Glenalmond and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, MA. He was then Vicar of All Saints Church, Fishponds, Bristol before becoming the Colonial and Continental Church Society's Chaplain at Nakuru, in East Africa
His address for probate was The Chaplaincy, Nakuru, British East Africa (now Kenya)
 
The Rev Richard Arthur Pell COLBORNE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 1st/1st Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
He was killed on the battlefield on 28 May 1918 near Arras. He was 31
He was the son of The Rev Arthur and Margaret E Colborne, Quy Vicarage, Cambridgeshire
He is buried in grave I D 1 Dainville British Cemetery
Additional information
His address for probate was Quy Vicarage
He was a native of Sudbury, Suffolk and Curate-in-charge of St John's Church, Merton.
 
The Rev Henry Herbert John COLLINS
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 9th Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
He was killed on the battlefield on 9 April 1917 near Arras. He was 35
He was the son of James T and Mary C Collins of London
He is buried in grave XVII K 10 Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez
Additional information
His address for probate was 48 Compton Street, Russell Square
 
The Rev George CONDIE
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 30 June 1918. He was 45
He was the son of John Morison Condie and Marion McLachlan McDonald Condie and the husband of Mary Calvert Walker Condie, 7 Ethel Terrace, 118 Stanmore Road, Mount Florida, Glasgow
He is buried in grave Q 933 61 Cathcart Cemetery
His address for probate was
 
The Rev Frederick St John CORBETT
Chaplain 3rd Class attached to 3rd (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
He died of pneumonia, the after-effects of influenza at Bethnal House, Cambridge Road on 14 March 1919
He was the son of John Corbett, an Irish senator and Principal of the Government Training College in Dublin and the husband of Elsie Corbett.
He is buried in grave I 75 St Martin Churchyard Extension, Ruislip
Additional Information:
His address for probate was The Rectory, St George in the East
He was a graduate of Trinity College Dublin MA who was a curate in Leeds, (also Acting Chaplain to the Leeds Rifles, the Prince of Wales Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment) and at St Michael, Chester Square, London. In 1896 he became Rector of Long Marton, near Appleby and then Rector of St George-in-the-East, London in 1903
He was Chaplain to the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Territorial Force (honorary Lieutenant-Colonel 1917), Governor of the East London Hospital for Children, Chairman of the St George's group of LCC schools and a member of the Diocesan Advisory Committee.
He wrote several books including:
Sermon Outlines (1891), The Preacher's Year(1894) and Life from a Parson's Point of View (1893), Echoes of the Sanctuary (1892), The Problem of Life (1896), Funeral Sermons & Addresses - An Aid to Pastors (1899) and A Thousand Things to Say in Sermons (1901), The Communicants' Little Book plus a novel Two Men and a Girl and an academic study, A History of British Poetry from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
 
The Rev Arthur Martin COWD
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 81st Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
He died from natural causes on 22 December 1918. He was 28
He was the son of Arthur G and Ellen Cowd, 8 Kirby Road, Earlsdon, Coventry
He is buried in grave III B 57 Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles
 
The Rev George Edward CRAVEN
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 7 December 1918 in 43 General Hospital, Salonika, Greece. He was 27
He was the son of the Rev George Edward and Susannah Craven, Middleton Vicarage, King's Lynn, Norfolk and the husband of Dorothy Craven
He is buried in grave 807 Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria
Additional information
M A 65 South Road, Smethwick.
 
Stan L is checking this out
 
The Rev Oswin CREIGHTON
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 42nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
He was killed on the battlefield on 15 April 1918. He was 34
He was the son of Mandell Creighton (Bishop of London), and Louise H Creighton
He is buried in grave I P 34 Chocques Military Cemetery
Additional information
The probate records state that he lived in Alix in Alberta Province, Canada
He was educated at Marlborough College
 
Rev William Loraine Seymour DALLAS
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 5th Battalion,The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
He was killed on the battlefield on 20 September 1917. He was 33
He was the son of Charles and Emily Dallas of Shanghai, China 
He is remembered panel 160 of the Tyne Cot Memorial
Additional information
He was educated at St Edmund's Hall, Oxford, and at Theological College, Wells
His address for probate was 28 Bullingham Mansions, Kensington
He was born in Japan of British parents and he had returned to the UK in 1895
 
The Rev P DAVEY
This is a sad story and the records are not clear.
The Times records on 12 December 1918: A verdict of 'Suicide during temporary insanity' was returned at the resumed yesterday on the body of Rev. P Davey, C.F., who was found hanging in a Great Western Railway carriage on the arrival of a train at Plymouth from London.
There is no mention of him in Soldiers who Died or the CWGC’s website and he is not included in the Civil Death Registrations
The Medal Roll has a record for Rev. J P Henry, Temp. Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class, Army Chaplain’s Dept. MID 1 12 16 but this was, I suspect, James Penry Davey who died in 1939.
 
The Rev Canon Arthur Gordon DEEDES
Chaplain 4th Class
He died on 29 November 1916 in Brixton. He was 55
He was the son of the Rev Canon Gordon Frederic Deedes, Vicar of Heydour, Lincolnshire
He is buried in grave V 178262 Brookwood Cemetery
Additional information
Vicar of St John the Divine, Kennington His address for probate was 125 Vassall Road
 
The Rev Hatton Bertram St John De VINE
See under V
 
The Rev Harry DICKINSON
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 28th (City of London) Battalion (Artists' Rifles), The London Regiment.
He was killed on the battlefield on 30 October 1917. He was 32
He was the son of Richard H and the late Cicely Dickinson, 438 Shaftmoor Lane, Hall Green, Birmingham.
He is buried in grave Sp Mem 5 Passchendaele New British Cemetery
His address for probate was St Stephen’s Vicarage, Birmingham
 
The Rev Charles Edmund DOUDNEY
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 18 Brigade, 6th Division
He died from his wounds on 16 October 1915 at no. 10 Casualty Hospital Abecle. He was 44
He was the son of the late Rev David A and Georgina Doudney and the husband of Joanna Clara Schroder  not Zoe Doudney, of Domremy, Old Headington, Oxford
He is buried in grave I A 31 Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Additional information
Native of Carlisle
His address for probate was St Luke’s Vicarage, Bath
Adm. pens. at CORPUS CHRISTI, Oct. 1, 1889. Of Cumberland. S. of David Alfred, clerk [R. of St Helen's, Hastings]. B. Mar. 13, 1871, at Carlisle. School, Hastings Grammar. Matric. Michs. 1889; B.A. 1892; M.A. 1896. Ord. deacon, 1894; priest (Rochester) 1895; C. of Penge, 1894-6. V. of Orroroo, South Australia, 1896-8. R. of Port Augusta, South Australia, 1898-1902. C. of Christ Church, North Adelaide, 1902-4. R. of Gawler St George, S. Australia, 1904-6. C. of West Hampstead, 1906-7. V. of South Lyncombe, Somerset, 1907-15. During the Great War, 1914-18, Chaplain to the Forces. Died Oct. 16, 1915, in Flanders, of wounds received in action. Brother of Herbert W. (1892). (Corpus Christi Reg. of Members; Crockford; Univ. War List.) 16 6 1899 Poulden
 
The Rev Denis DOYLE          MC
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 2nd Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
He was killed on the battlefield on 17 August 1916
He is buried in grave I C 6 Dive Copse British Cemetery, Sailly-Le-Sec
His address for probate was Manresa House, Roehampton
 
The Rev William Joseph DOYLE    MC, MiD
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 8th Battalion, The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
He was killed on the battlefield on 17 August 1917
He is remembered panel 160 of the Tyne Cot Memorial
 
The Rev Richard William DUGDALE           MC
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 1st Battalion, The Norfolk Regiment.
He was killed on the battlefield on 24 October 1918. He was 29
He was the son of The Rev Sydney and Phyllis Dugdale, the Rectory, Whitchurch, Shropshire
He is buried in grave IV G 22 Caudry British Cemetery
Additional information
His address for probate was 9 Horton Crescent, Rugby
 
The Rev Edward Francis DUNCAN            MC
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 103rd Infantry Brigade
He was killed on the battlefield on 11 March 1917. He was 32
He was the son of John and Anna Duncan, of Fintona, Co Tyrone; husband of Jane Caroline Duncan, of Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim
He is buried in grave II F 8 Faubourg d’Amiens Cemetery, Arras
 
The Rev Sidney DUNSTAN
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 16 July 1918 at the Military Hospital, Clipstone, Nottinghamshire. He was 34
He was the husband of Muriel Alicia Dunstan
He is buried in grave A 3414 Nottingham Road Cemetery Mansfield
His address for probate was 76 Kingston Road, Oxford
 
The Rev John Richard DUVALL
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 13th Battalion, The  Manchester Regiment
He died in Salonica on 6 October 1917 from wounds he had previously received. He was 28
He was the son of John William and Anna Duvall, Walton Road, Ware.
He is buried in grave C 443 Sarigol Military Cemetery, Kriston
Additional information
His address for probate was St Boniface College, Warminster
 
The Rev Herbert Hinton EAST
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 13th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment
He was killed on the battlefield on 5 August 1917. He was 30
He was the son of Emma Jane East, 284 Kew Road, Kew, and the late Francis Hyde Hinton East
He is remembered on panel 56 of the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres
His address for probate was 284 Kew Road, Kew
 
The Rev Frank Harrison EDINGER
Chaplain 4th Class
He died at sea on the hospital ship Glenart Castle on 26 February 1918. He was 33
He was the son of the late Rev Philip, formerly Vicar of Mersham, and Emily Edinger and the husband of Maud Mary Edinger, 4 Church Road, Ashford, Kent
He is remembered on the Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton
Additional information
His address for probate was Clergy House, Ashford, Kent
The story of this war crime is that SS Glenart Castle was torpedoed at 03.47 hours by the German Uboat UC56. Although painted white with several Red Cross’s prominently displayed and fully lit including a prominent green band painted all around the ship indicating her status, Wilhelm Kiesewetter the submarine commander totally ignored all rules of war and engagement. The torpedo struck the engine room and she sank in about seven minutes.
The Glenart Castle was 10 miles west of Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel heading for Brest to pick up wounded troops. 153 died and only 38 survived.
This report on this incident drew attention to seven other Hospital Ship sinkings by U-boats over the previous twelve months.
There is a memorial to commemorate the loss of HS Glenart Castle at Hartland Point on the north Devon coast.
 
The Rev Evan EDWARDS
Chaplain 4th Class
He died on 27 November 1918 at home. He was 32
He was the son of Evan and Gwen Edwards, Stuart Road, Walton, Liverpool and the husband of Gladys Edwards, of Fairhaven, Llanrug, Carnarvon
He is buried in grave VI U 1375 Anfield Cemetery Liverpool
 
The Rev Pierce John EGAN
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 1st Battalion, British West Indies Regiment
He died of dysentery on 6 April 1916 in Alexandria, Egypt
He was the husband of Jessie Helen Egan, 7A Spencer Road, Eastbourne
He is buried in grave Q 568 Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery Alexandria
Additional information
His address for probate was The Rectory Galashiels
He is included in Ireland, Casualties of World War I
 
The Rev John Charles ELLIOTT
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 5 October 1920
He is buried in the south west part of the Churchyard of St Anne’s Church, Baslow, Derbyshire
Additional information
His address for probate was The Vicarage, Curbar, Derbyshire
Asked the current vicar
 
The Rev Edward Williams EVANS              MiD
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 10 February 1919 at home. He was 67
He was the son of the late Archdeacon Evans, of Merioneth (Canon of Bangor); husband of Edith R Evans, 71C Harcourt Terrace, London
He is buried to the south of the church in the churchyard of St Maker and St Julian, Cornwall
His address for probate was Istana Western Lodge, College Road, Mannamead
 
The Rev Geoffrey Maynard EVANS            MC
Chaplain 4th Class
He was killed on the battlefield on 11 August 1917. He was 35
He was the son of Samuel and Eleanor Sophia Evans of Cartref, Dovercourt, Essex
He is buried in grave II E 12 Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery and Extension, Ypres 
Additional information
In the 1911 census he is in the Army as a Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, The Welch Regiment
He was educated at Marlborough College
 
The Rev John William Alcock EYRE-POWELL
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 27th Army Labour Corps HQ
He was killed on the battlefield on 16 April 1918. He was 37
He was the son of Richard and Marie Louisa Eyre-Powell, The Cottage, Colyton, Axminster and Mont Alto, Dalkey, Co Dublin
He is remembered panel 160 of the Tyne Cot Memorial
Additional information
His address for probate was 1 Mount Alto Dalkey Co. Dublin
 
The Rev William James FALSIDE
Chaplain 4th Class
7 October 1918. He was 35
He was the son of the Rev John Tully Falside, of United Free Manse, Davington, Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire, and the late Elizabeth Semple Falside,
He is buried in grave I D 2 Faenza Communal Cemetery
Additional information
M A
 
Finch
 
The Rev William Joseph FINN
Chaplain 4th Class
He was killed on the battlefield on 25 April 1915 near Sedd el Bahr, Turkey
He is buried in Joint grave F 4, V Beach Cemetery, Cape Helles
Additional information
His address for probate was The Presbytery, Houghton Sancton, Yorkshire
Fr. Finn's father and mother came from a place called Aghamore, Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo.
The Rev. William Joseph Finn was the first priest to be killed in the First World War
 
There were many brave men at V Beach (and all over Gallipoli) that day, but you can't help but be struck by the bravery of a man that didn't have to actually be there.
It was said that he was shot in the chest as he was leaving the boat taking the soldiers to the beach - he was also shot in arm and leg as he administered sacraments to wounded soldiers and then shrapnel took away most his head shortly afterwards.
The Church of England minister, the Rev H. C. Foster, MA, wrote of his WWI experiences in a book titled ‘At Antwerp and in the Dardanelles’ published by Mills & Boon in 1918 - despite being from different backgrounds the Rev Foster and Father Finn developed a firm friendship while serving together. As a token of this friendship Finn presented Foster with a medallion of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Foster himself wrote “Father Finn’s death was a great grief to me and a great blow to his men who well nigh worshipped him.”
As the boats drew nearer to the beach the awful hail of machine gun and rifle fire, together with shrapnel, took its toll. Father Finn, in the same boat as the Commanding Officer, leapt over the side to go to the assistance of wounded and dying men. His clothes were ripped with bullets and he was hit. Despite the pain he endured, he was seen crawling about the beach talking quietly to the RDF and trying to give Absolution to those close to death. This was not without the greatest difficulty, as one account states, as he had to hold his wounded right arm up with his left. He suffered from loss of blood and eventually exhaustion, end eye witness accounts attest that within a short time he was killed by shrapnel
"Helles Landing-Gallipoli", (Barnsley-2003), Huw & Jill Rodge, p. 134
And just to add a little extra on Father Finn - this is from Myles Dungan's book "They Shall Not Grow Old"
"A total of 172 padres were killed in the Great War, 16 of whom were Irish. Among the best known Irish chaplains to die were ........ Fr Finn, the first padre of the war to be killed, who died at Gallipoli having ignored an order not to go ashore with the troops. He was a Tipperary man (?) serving with the 1st Dublin Fusiliers. Before the V beach landing he had asked to be allowed to accompany the Dublins into what became an infamous massacre. He is reputed to have said, 'The priest's place is beside the dying soldier; I must go'. He certainly spent a considerable part of the day beside dying soldiers as there was an abundance of them at V Beach. He attempted to save a number of drowning and wounded men before being hit himself, in the right arm. He managed to get ashore and crawled around the beach offering help or consolation to the wounded and dying Dublins and Munsters. In order to give absolution he had to hold up an injured right arm with his left. While he was blessing one of the men in this fashion, there was a shrapnel burst above him which blew part of his skull away. He was buried on the beach and his grave marked with a cross made out of an ammunition box 'To the Memory of the Revd Capt. Finn'"
 
The Rev Oswald Garrow FISHER
Chaplain 4th Class
He died on 4 November 1920
He is buried in grave VIII J 9 North Gate War Cemetery, Baghdad
Additional information
Nothing else found (yet)
 
The Rev J FITZGIBBON                   MC
Chaplain 3rd Class attached to 17th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
He was killed on the battlefield on 18 September 1918.
He was
He was the son of Mr J Fitzgibbon of Castlerea, Co Roscommon
He is buried in grave B 56 Cemetery Trefcon British Cemetery, Caulaincourt
 
The Rev Donald FRASER                DSO
Chaplain 2nd Class
He died on 2 June 1918. He was 42.
He was the son of Alexander Fraser, Auchgate, Cannich, Beauly, Inverness-shire
He is buried in grave A 2 Couin New British Cemetery
Additional information
Baptist Minister, Tamworth
He is described as being killed. Usually the records indicate killed in action or died from wounds; I have not seen a death described as killed before
His address for probate was 23 Gungate, Tamworth, Warwickshire
 
The Rev William Herbert FREESTONE
Chaplain 4th Class
He was killed on the battlefield on 14 December 1916. He was 34
He was the son of William and Harriet Maude Freestone, 4 Clarendon Street, Nottingham
He is buried in grave 1891 Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria
 
The Rev Reginald Hardwick FULFORD
Chaplain 4th Class
He was killed on the battlefield on 15/12/1916
He is remembered on panel 43 of the Basra Memorial
Was it Salonika?
 
The Rev Charles Harold GARRETT
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 2nd/6th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment
He was killed on the battlefield on 26 September 1917. He was 28
He was the Eldest son of Mr and Mrs C T  Garrett, Old Town, Clapham, London.
He is buried in grave I H 27 Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No 3
Additional information
Or Vlamertinghe
BA, late Assistant Priest of The Priory Church, Worksop, Notts
 
The Rev William Duncan GEARE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 165th Indian Civil Service
He was killed on the battlefield on 31/07/1917. He was 26
He was the son of Henry Cecil and Caroline Isabella Geare, of 14, Chalcot Gardens, Hampstead, London 
He is buried in grave VI A 1 Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery
Additional information
Served with 7th and 9th Bns  The King's Liverpool Regt at Ypres  Of Westminster School and Queen's College, Cambridge  M A
News has been received of the death in action on July 31st of the Rev. William Duncan Geare, chaplain to the Forces and assistant curate at St. Margaret's Church, Ilkley. Mr. Geare was educated at Westminster School and Queen's College, Cambridge, and prior to his ordination was for some time at the Leeds Clergy School. He was ordained at the latter part of 1913, and took up work at Ilkley at the beginning of 1914. Since he went to the Front he has shared the dangers and the hardships of the men in the trenches.
 
The Rev Basil Johnson GEDGE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 78th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
He died from the wounds he had previously received on 25 April 1917. He was 34
He was the son of the Rev Edmund and Mary Elizabeth Gedge and the husband of Mary K Gedge, The Priory, Thatcham, Berkshire
He is buried in grave I F 17 Doiran Military Cemetery
 
The Rev Edward Reginald GIBBS
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards
He was killed on the battlefield on 29 March 1918. He was 32
He was the son of the Rev William C and Mrs Gibbs, Temple Hill, East Budleigh, Devon
He is buried in grave 2 Boisieux au Mont Communal Cemetery
Additional information
Keble College Oxford 1910 Ordained 1911 Curate Adwick le Street Priest 1913 Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of York
The Rev Edward Reginald Gibbs, M.A., Domestic chaplain to the Archbishop of York, before he went to France as chaplain to the Grenadier Guards, was killed on Friday last. He was returning from conducting the funeral of a soldier, when a shell burst close by. The son of a Devonshire clergyman, who died only three weeks ago, he was also a cousin of Mrs. Foxley Norris, wife of the Dean of York, and of Mrs. A.S. Crawley, Bishopthorpe. He had a brother killed in the early days of the war, and three other brothers are serving. [The Yorkshire Evening News, Friday 15 April, 1918. P. 5]
 
The Rev Michael Patrick GORDON
Chaplain 4th Class attached to XV Corps.
He died from the wounds he had previously received on 27 August 1917. He was 34
He was the son of Michael and Mary Gordon of Chapelton House, Dumbarton 
D D
He is buried in grave III C 13 Coxyde Military Cemetery
 
The Rev Ernest Newham GREEN
Chaplain 4th Class
He died on 26 March 1916 in Salisbury. He was 36
He was the son of the late Thomas and Mary Green and the husband of Helen D Green, Holland House, Holland Road, Willesdon
He is buried in grave I 340 Willesden New Cemetery
 
The Rev Hugh James Bernard GREEN
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 20th Division, The Machine Gun Corps     DETLS
He died from natural causes on 8 December 1918. He was 34.
He was the son of the Rev F J and Mrs T E Green, Newstead, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
He is buried in grave V E 75 Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery, St Omer
 
The Rev Herbert GREEN                  MC
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 41st Machine Gun Company, 14 Division  
He was killed on the battlefield on 24 August 1917. He was 28.
He was the son of Henry and Agnes Annie Green, Catley Park, Linton, Cambridgeshire and the husband of Olive Green of Little Chesterford, Saffron Walden
He is buried in grave III B 13 The Huts Cemetery
Wesleyan  Indian Civil Service?
 
The Rev Richard Ussher GREER
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 8th Battlion, The Royal Irish Rifles
He died from a brain haemorrhage on 23 June 1915. He was 47
He is buried to the rear of Holy Trinity Church of Ireland, Tullanisken
Additional information
He was the Rector of Seapatrick Parish, Ireland
N B   Recent research has shown that this gentleman is buried here
 
The Rev Joseph James Griffin
Temp Chaplain 4th Class (C of E)
He died on 30 January 1918 at 40 Clarence Road, Handsworth. He was 51
Additional information
St Peters Church, Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham
He was associated with Cheltenham College in some capacity
 
The Rev David Howell GRIFFITH
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 12 December 1917 at home. He was
He was the son of
He is buried in grave North-East of Church Churchyard St Mary Magdalene, Usk
 
THE Rev Peter GROBEL
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 1 January 1917
He is buried in grave VII A 12 Boulogne Eastern Cemetery
Additional information
He had been responsible for the building of the new brick Roman Catholic Church, St Edmund, King and Martyr, Little Hulton in 1900 replacing the previous iron church.
His Probate address was 52 Grand rue, Boulogne sur Mer
 
The Rev Henry Edward GUNSON
Chaplain 4th Class
He died on 23 August 1918 in Cosham. He was
He was the son of
He is buried in the churchyard of Christ Church, Portsdown
 
The Rev David Mitchell GUTHRIE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 8th Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment
He died of his wounds on 21 November 1916.
He was the son of
He is buried in grave I C 34 Varennes Military Cemetery
 
The Rev John GWYNN
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 1st Battalion, Irish Guards (Roman Catholic Jesuit)
He died of his wounds on 12 October 1915. He was
He was the son of
He is buried in grave II K 6 Bethune Town Cemetery
 
The Ven Henry Armstrong HALL CBE
Chaplain 1st Class
He died on 12 May 1921 at the Rectory, Methley, Leeds. He was 67.
He was the husband of Catherine Gertrude Hall
He is buried in south-east part of Oswald Churchyard Methley
Additional information
He was Archdeacon of Richmond; Chaplain to the Forces; Chaplain to the King; Rector of Methley, Leeds
Deputy Assistant Chaplain General (1916) BD (Dur), AKC
 
The Rev Frank Robert HARBORD
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 25th Division Chaplain's Depot
He died from his wounds on 8 August 1917 near Ypres. He was 49.
He was the son of William E and Mary Harbord and the husband of Edith C Harbord.
He is buried in grave V A 1 Brandhoek New Military Cemetery
Additional information
He was the Vicar of Dunchurch, Rugby
He had also served as a Chaplain during the Anglo-Boer War
Harbord was made Deacon in 1890 and Priest in 1893 by the Bishop of Bloemfontein.  He then held various appointments in the Orange River Colony.  Acting Chaplain to the Forces in the Boer War, 1900-02; Curate of Yorktown with Camberley 1909/10; Pershore 1910-12; Vicar of Dunchurch from 1912.  Died of wounds  in Belgium as stated above, and remembered on the Aldershot Memorial.
The Rev Harbord  is commemorated in his former parish church at Dunchurch. A plaque commemorates his service in the South African war and a magnificent stained glass window was paid for by his wife in his memory for his WW1 service. It contains the 25th Division sign and I believe he was attached to the Divisional artillery
 
The Rev Wilfrid John HARDING       MC or Wilfred?
Chaplain 4th Class attached to Drake Battalion R N  Div  Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
He was killed on the battlefield on 31 October 1917. He was 31
He was the son of Richmond Arthur and Alice E Harding, of Cranmore, Osterley Road, Isleworth and the husband of Mary Harding of Cranmore, Isleworth
He is remembered panel 160 of the Tyne Cot Memorial
 
The Rev James Henry HARDY
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 1st/1st Battalion, The Welsh Regiment
He was killed on the battlefield on 5 May 1918. He was 45
He was the son of Robert Henry and Charlotte Hardy and the husband of Mary Stewart Hardy, 40, Briarbank Terrace, Edinburgh
He is buried in grave XI B 17 Nine Elms British Cemetery
? att R G A
 
The Rev Theodore Bailey HARDY              VC, DSO, MC
Chaplain, 4th Class attached to 8th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
He died of his wounds on 18 October 1918. He was 54.
He was the son of George and Sarah Richards Hardy of Exeter and the husband of the late Florence E Hardy of Hutton
He is buried in grave S V J 1 St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen
Additional information
Appointed Chaplain to His Majesty, 17 Sept, 1918 Son of; Roof Vicar He was, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland BA
Citation
An extract from the London Gazette, No 30790, dated 9th July, 1918, records the following: 
"For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on many occasions Although over 50 years of He was, he has, by his fearlessness,
devotion to men of his battalion, and quiet unobtrusive manner, won the respect and admiration of the whole division His marvellous energy and endurance would be remarkable even in a very much younger man, and his valour and devotion are exemplified in the following incidents
An infantry patrol had gone out to attack a previously located enemy post in the ruins of a villHe was, the Reverend Theodore Bailey Hardy (CF) being then at company headquarters Hearing firing, he followed the patrol, and about four hundred yards beyond our front line of posts found an officer of the patrol dangerously wounded He remained with the officer until he was able to get assistance to bring him in During this time there was a great deal of firing, and an enemy patrol actually penetrated between the spot at which the officer was lying and our front line and captured three of our men
On a second occasion when an enemy shell exploded in the middle of one of our posts, the Reverend T B Hardy at once made his way to the spot, despite the shell and trench mortar fire which was going on at the time, and set to work to extricate the buried men He succeeded in getting out one man who had been completely buried He then set to work to extricate a second man, who was found to be dead During the whole of the time that he was digging out the men this chaplain was in great danger, not only from shell fire, but also because of the dangerous condition of the wall of the building which had been hit by the shell which buried the men
On a third occasion he displayed the greatest devotion to duty when our infantry, after a successful attack, were gradually forced back to their starting trench After it was believed that all our men had withdrawn from the wood, Chaplain Hardy came out of it, and on reaching an advanced post asked the men to help him to get in a wounded man Accompanied by a serjeant he made his way to the spot where the man lay, within ten yards of a pill-box which had been captured in the morning, but was subsequently re-captured and occupied by the enemy The wounded man was too weak to stand, but between them the chaplain and the sergeant eventually succeeded in getting him to our lines Throughout the day the enemy's artillery, machine-gun and trench mortar fire was continuous, and caused many casualties Notwithstanding, this very gallant chaplain was seen moving quietly amongst the men and tending the wounded, absolutely regardless of his personal safety"
News has been received, in Nottingham, of the Rev. T.B. Hardy, V.C., D.S.O., for many years assistant master at Nottingham High School, and afterwards headmaster at Bentham Grammar School. The heroic chaplain, who succumbed to gunshot wounds received in France, was awarded the Victoria Cross in July.
 
The Rev Jeremiah Austin HARTIGAN
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 16 July 1916. He was 33
He was the son of Jane Hartigan, Tar Brook, Croom, Co Limerick and the late Dr J T Hartigan
He is buried in grave IX G 19 Amara War Cemetery, Iraq
 
The Rev Arthur Percival HATFIELD
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 1st B G H
He died from natural causes on 9 July 1918
He was the son of the Rev Thomas Shiers Hatfield and Frances Mary Hatfield; husband of C Hilda Hatfield, of Sutton Vicarage, Retford, Notts
He is buried in grave XIV C 14 Amara War Cemetery, Iraq
Gordon Highlanders
 
The Rev Noel Elliot HAWDON
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 45th Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Artillery.
He died from natural causes on 16 November 1918
He was the son of Mr W and Mrs M Hawdon, Upsall Grange, Yorkshire
He is buried in grave XI B 1 Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille
 
The Rev William Henry HEADING
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 21/11/1918. He was 29
He is buried in grave B 640 Meeks Cemetery, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire.
 
The Rev Alfred HEATH
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 9th Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
He was killed on the battlefield on 30 June 1918. He was 39.
He was the son of Daniel and Agnes Amelia Heath, 10 Mount Pleasant, Turner's Hill, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
He is buried in grave II A 1 Toutencourt Communal Cemetery
Additional information
He was born in Edmonton, Middlesex
 
The Rev David HEGGIE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 2nd/7th The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
He died from natural causes on 23 October 1917. He was 33
He was the son of Andrew and Christina Gorrie Heggie, Kilwaughter Castle, Larne, Co Antrim and the husband of the late Rossana Heggie of Edinburgh
He is buried in grave 1250 Curragh Military Cemetery
 
The Rev Robert Morley HENDERSON
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 3 February 1919. He was 39
He was the son of Mary S Henderson
He is buried in grave IV B 3 Belgrade Cemetery
Additional information
His address for probate was 63 Queensborough Terrace, Hyde Park
born dover 1880
 
The Rev Frederick Whitmore HEWITT
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 20th Infantry Brigade
He was killed on the battlefield on 27 September 1915 at Vermelles. He was 35.
He was the son of Stanley and Louisa Hughes Hewitt and the husband of Blanche E M Hewitt, Heatherley, Camberley. 
He is buried in grave I G 31 Vermelles British Cemetery
Additional information
He was the Vicar of Brixton, Plymouth
 
The Rev Sydney Rangeley HEWITT OBE, Twice MiD
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 6th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
He died from natural causes on 16 February 1919. He was 27
He was the son of Mr and Mrs Thomas H Hewitt, Sydney Cottage, Gawsworth, Macclesfield
He is buried in grave IX F 22 Cologne Southern Cemetery
Student at Headingley Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Wesleyan
 
Hoare
 
The Rev C W HODDER
Chaplain 4th Class
21 October 1918
He is buried in grave U 4566 Richmond Cemetery, Surrey
Not in swd
 
The Rev Oswald Addenbrooke HOLDEN
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 60th Infantry Brigade
He was killed on the battlefield on 1 December 1917 near Villers Plouich. He was 43.
He was the son of Oswald Mangin and Henrietta Holden, Rector of Steeple Langford
 Gailey Vicarage in Staffordshire and the husband of Ella Mary Holden, Penn Cot, Cooden Drive, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex
He is buried in grave IV C 15 Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich 
Additional information
He was the Vicar of Penn, Staffordshire
 
The Rev Charles Ivo Sinclair HOOD
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 41 Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery
He died from the wounds he had previously received on 15 April 1918. He was 31
He was the son of the late Sinclair Frankland Hood and Grace Hood, Nettleham Hall, Lincoln and the husband of Christobel M Hood, of Sidestrand, Cromer
He is buried in grave XXVI FF 9 Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Additional information
Rector of Sidestrand, Norfolk 
Formerly Head of the Magdalen College Mission, Euston, London 
He had served in France, Gallipoli and Egypt
 
The Rev Robert Wilson HOPKINS
Chaplain 4th Class
Date of Death: 24 April 1920. He was 42
He was the son of Joseph H and Mary Hopkins and the husband of Helena B Hopkins, Applegarth Road, West Kensington
He is buried in grave XXXI D 21 Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Additional Information:
His Probate address was Glascoed, Clifford Road, New Barnet, Wesleyan Minister
 
The Rev Edgar Charles HOULSTON
Chaplain 4th Class
He drowned on 4 May 1917. He was 25
He was the son of Sarah Houlston, 87 Clarence Street, Lower Broughton, Manchester and the late William Henry Houlston ,
He is buried in grave III A 18 Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles
Additional information
Address for probate 8 St Albans Crescent Born at Wrexham
He had served in Mudros and in Italy    HMT Transylvania 4 5 1917
 
The Rev Thomas HOWELL
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 6th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
He was killed on the battlefield on 1 December 1917. He was 33.
He was the son of? Howell and Mary Ann Howell, of Fishguard, Wales
He is buried in grave IV C 16 Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich 
 
The Rev Philip Needham HUNTER
Chaplain 4th Class
He died at Helena Hospital, Shorncliffe on 14 March 1919. He was 63
He is buried in grave M 744 Shorncliffe Military Cemetery
Additional information
His address for Probate was Shorncliffe Camp
 
The Rev Rupert Edward INGLIS
Chaplain
He was killed on the battlefield on 18 September 1916. He was 53
He was the son of the late Sir John Inglis, KCB , and the late Hon. Lady Inglis and the husband of Helen Mary Inglis of Cuttens, East Grinstead 
He is remembered on pier and face 4C of the Thiepval Memorial
Additional information
Is he buried at Gimchy
Former England International Rugby Football player
 
The Rev John Thomas Craig IRELAND
Chaplain 4th Class
He drowned on 4 May 1917. He was 45
Husband of Agnes Ireland, of 18 Braid Crescent, Edinburgh
He is remembered on the Savona Memorial
 
The Rev Alexander JACK
Chaplain 3rd Class attached to 6th Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders.
He died from natural causes on 22 November 1920. He was 69.
He was son of John and Ann Jack and the husband of Jane Ann Jack of Towie, Aberdeenshire
He is buried in the north west part of the churchyard in Towie
Additional Information
He attended the Grammar School, Portsoy and Aberdeen University, MA 1873. He then taught at Dr Seaver's School, Brighton, Glenlivet School, High School, Beith, New Byth School and Drumblade School. He changed career and became a Missionary at Fetterangus, 1884-1885 and was Licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen in 1886 when he was a Missionary at Ruthrieston. He was ordained in 1888 and appointed Minister of Towie in  1888 and in 1900 he was also appointed Chaplain to 4th Battalion Gordons.
He is also in the United Kingdom Book of Remembrance, Berkshire
 
The Rev Charles Thomas Claude JEFFERYS
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 20 November 1918 in Chelsea. He was
He was the son of
He is buried in grave Y F 43 St James's Cemetery, Bath
 
The Rev David JENKINS
Chaplain 4th Class
He died at the Horton War Hospital, Epsom on 6 March 1919. He was 32
He was the son of William and Margaret Jenkins of Cefn Cribbwr, Bridgend, Glamorgan
He is buried in the south-east part of the churchyard at St James’ Church, Pyle, Glamorgan
Additional information
His address for Probate was 101 Hook Road, Epsom
 
The Rev Ernest Edward JOHNSON
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 15th Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers
He died from natural causes on 1 December 1918. He was 33.
He was the son of E T and A J Johnson and the husband of Elsie M B Johnson, The
Worlds End, Cobham, Surrey
He is buried in grave I 32 Le Cateau Communal Cemetery
Additional information
First Priest-in-charge of New Rossington, Yorks
Much regret has been expressed in the colliery village of Rossington by the news of the death, in France, from pneumonia, of the Rev. Ernest Edward Johnson, a well-known Chaplain to the Forces.
Mr Johnson, before going to the front, had spiritual charge of Rossington New Village, a large colliery settlement near Doncaster. He was very anxious to volunteer early in the war, but for a long time the Bishop of Sheffield withheld his consent.
Determined to do something for his country, he obtained employment in his spare time as a miner at Rossington Colliery, and took his turn like any ordinary collier, much to the admiration of the latter. He continued in the pit until he was allowed to go to the Front.
Re the Rev Ernest Edward Johnson - you might be interested to know that his name is on the War Memorial at Wath-upon-Dearne where he was a Curate from c.1912 to 1916.
 
The Rev Edward JOHNSON-SMYTH
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 10 February 1917. He was 44.
He was the son of Thomas Johnson-Smyth, JP, and Maud (his wife), of Glenavy, Co Antrim and the husband of M S Johnson-Smyth, of Pawa Domus, Cherry Garden Road, Canterbury
Additional information
MA Clerk in Holy Orders, of Ballykeel, Cowley, nr Exeter
He is buried in grave B 4 11 Cemetery St Sever Cemetery, Rouen
 
The Rev Basil JONES
Chaplain 4th Class attached to Royal Garrison Artillery
He died from natural causes on 25 October 1918. He was 32
He was the son of George and Emma Jones and the husband of Dora M Jones, 48 Conduit Street, Gloucester
He is buried in grave Div 62 V N 2 Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre
Additional information
He had been posted to France just a month earlier
 
The Rev Thomas Glasfryn JONES
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 11th The South Wales Borderers
He died from his wounds on 12 April 1917 in Vincent Square Hospital, London. He was 33
He was the son of Mr  and Mrs John Jones,  3 Meidoym Road, Llangeitho 
He is buried in the new ground on the north side St Ceitho Churchyard Llangeitho
Additional information
B A (Lampeter)  Late Curate at Mostyn
Evans jones is royal w fusiliers
The Rev William Edgar JONES
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 2nd Battalion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
He died of his wounds on 8 October 1918. He was 24.
He was the son of Eliza Evans Jones of Rowen, Portdinorwic, Caernarvonshire, and the late David Jones
He is buried in grave IV E 2 Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gouy
Additional information
He is also listed as serving with 8th Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment but the Royal Welsh Fusiliers sounds more likely for a Welshman
 
The Rev William Edgar JONES or Evans?
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 9th Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own, (Yorkshire Regiment)
He died on 24 October 1918 from the wounds he had previously received. He was 30
He was the son of Mrs A Jones, Garth, Aberayron, Cardiganshire and the late Mr J B Jones He is buried in grave II D 25 Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension
 
The Rev Peter JONES-ROBERTS
Chaplain 4th Class
He drowned in an accident in the Menai Straits on 23 June 1921. He was 58
He was the husband of Sarah Ellen Roberts, of Glynawel, College Road, Bangor
He is buried in grave W CP 13 Glanadda Cemetery, Bangor
Additional Information:
He was a Wesleyan Minister Glyn-awel originally from Barmouth. He was 51 when war broke out and volunteered to be a Chaplain, turned down as over-age, he was soon accepted for Home Service but talked his way to the Front. He helped build a rest and entertainment hut for those passing through and became attached to the 38th (Welsh) Division as well as serving in Casualty Clearing Stations. His services were extremely popular and he enjoyed hearing the men singing familiar hymns.
His eldest son, Glyn had also volunteered and was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, 9th Battalion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers. It was his death at La Boiselle on 3 July 1916 that so deeply affected his father. Aubrey, was the next to enlisted in 16th Battalion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, later becoming its Adjutant. He went to France in December 1915 with 38th (Welsh) Division. He was reported missing but in January 1917 the family heard he was a PoW and he spent the rest of the war in a camp at Clausthal am Hartz. Lorrie, the second son was commissioned in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers with 17th Battalion becoming Adjutant before being severely wounded in the ribs and chest in September 1918. The youngest son, Dewi, was commissioned into 3rd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers and reached France in 1918 as an officer in 9th, his late brother’s battalion. Dewi was awarded an MC, for securing an important position at Neuve Chapelle on 30 September when he had led a platoon through a maze of trenches and machine-gun emplacements and taking the guns as well as 11 prisoners.
Peter Roberts spent over 4 years in the Army. He wrote to his wife every day but by the time he returned home in 1920 the mental and physical strain had taken its toll. In June 1921 he enjoyed a sea-fishing trip with Dewi and the following day went out fishing on his own, telling his wife that he would not be long. She became alarmed when he did not return and a search was begun.
His body was found caught up in a fishing- net near Ty Calch on the Menai Straits. His boat, containing his fishing tackle and pipe was found not far from his home. It is believed that he fell over the side of the boat while raising the anchor and was swept away by the tide.
 
The Rev Alan Cecil JUDD                            MC
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 2nd/5th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
He was killed on the battlefield on 21 March 1918. He was 31
He was the son of Bertram George Scott Judd and Emma Donna Judd 
He is remembered on panel 10 of the Arras Memorial
Additional information
Educated St Paul's School, and Exeter College, Oxford M A
 
The Rev Bernard KAVANAGH
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from the wounds he had previously received on 21 December 1917. He was 53
He is buried in grave Q 82 Jerusalem War Cemetery
 
The Rev William Henry KAY                        MC
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 5th Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment
He was killed on the battlefield on 5 April 1918. He was 29.
He was the son of Henry Kay, FGS and Emily Kay, 6 South Road, Handsworth, Birmingham
Grave III C 3 Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery Extension
 
The Rev John KELLIE          MiD
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 6th Battalion, The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
He was killed on the battlefield on 1 August 1917. He was 34
He was the son of Robert Luin Kellie and Janet Kellie and the husband of Margaret Orr Ramsay Kellie, 30 Park Circus, Ayr
He is remembered on panel 56 of the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres
 
The Rev James KIRK           M C
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s)
He died of his wounds on 1 April 1918. He was 44.
He was the son of James and Janet Kirk, Kirkford, nr Cowdenbeath, Fife and the husband of Eliz M Kirk, 8 Woodhall Terrace, Juniper Green, Midlothian
He is buried in grave IV E 2 Wimereux Communal Cemetery
 
The Rev Robert M KIRWAN
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 23 May 1916. He was 55.
He was the son of
He is buried in grave 166 7 and 8 Hanwell Cemetery Kensington
Additional information
Check this a civil registration
Rev. Robert Mansel Kirwan, Chaplain to the Expeditionary Force to Mesopotamia. Son of the Rev. Richard Kirwan MA, Rural Dean of Honiton and his wife Rose Helen Kirwan (née Lampet). Born in Sampford Peverell in the June Quarter of 1861. Served as Chaplain to the Tirah Expeditionary Force between 1897 and 1898. Held the expedition medal and 2 clasps. Died in the London Military Hospital after a severe operation 23 May 1916 aged 55.
 
The Rev Simon Stock KNAPP DSO, MC
Chaplain 3rd Class attached to 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards
He died from the wounds he had previously received on 1/08/1917
He is buried in grave II C 1 Dozinghem Military Cemetery
 
The Rev Cecil LANGDON
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 11th Battalion, The Border Regiment
He was killed on the battlefield on 31 October 1917. He was 35.
He was the son of the late Augustin William Langdon, MA, Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn; husband of Elizabeth Mercer Langdon,  Orchard Cottage, Aspley Heath, Woburn Sands
He is buried in grave II E 11 Gwalia Cemetery
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He was, Incumbent of Horeham Road, Sussex
Probate the Parsonage, Horeham Road Sussex
Born Hastins 1882
Horeham Road, a hamlet, partly in the parishes of Hellingley & Waldron, with a station on the Eastbourne branch of the L.B.&S.C. railway, equally distant about 2 ½ miles from those places and 5 ½ north from Hailsham. Christ Church Mission church, a small edifice of brick, was erected in 1890, and will seat 150 persons. The Rev. Charles Albert Corser Langdon B.A. of University College, Durham, has been minister in charge since 1905. The children of this parish attend the school at Maynard’s Green
 
The Rev Henry Heaton LAWSON
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment
He was killed on the battlefield on 24 March 1918. He was 29
He was the son of Mr and Mrs W H Lawson, West House, The Greave, Rochdale and the husband of Hettie Lawson, Sandfield, Bacup, Lancashire
He is buried in grave III A 1 Fouquescourt British Cemetery
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BA University of Manchester 1910 MA in 1911 Ripon Theological College Rdained 1914 Curate at Stourton
He was killed by shellfire
 
The Rev Herbert Nettleton LEAKEY
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 24 July 1917. He was 27
He was the son of Charles Montague and Agnes Leakey, Goldsworthy House, Gunnislake, Cornwall
He is buried in grave 4 C 5 Dar es Salaam War Cemetery
 
The Rev Herbert Peter LEDBITTER
Chaplain 4th Class attached A M T D Base
He died from natural causes on 28 February 1917. He was 27
He was the son of Annie Ledbitter father L Crawley Sussex
He is buried in grave 2 O 3 Le Tréport Military Cemetery
 
The Rev James Thomas LEESON
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 13th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
He was killed on the battlefield on 23 April 1917.
He was He was the son of
He is buried in grave II G 14 Point du Jour Military Cemetery, Athies
 
The Rev James Herbert Reginald LENDRUM
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 8th Battalion, The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
He was killed on the battlefield on 22 August 1918. He was 31.
He was the son of Robert and Clara Lendrum, of London; husband of Eleanor Mary Lendrum, of The Square, St Neots, Hunts
He is buried in grave XIX E 14 Bienvillers Military Cemetery
Additional information
BA, AKC Curate of Apsley End, 1913-17
 
The Rev Gerald James LESTER
Chaplain 4th Class attached to Chief Mechanical Engineer’s Locomotive Works
He died from natural causes on 16 December 1918. He was 33
He was the son of the Rev E A and Mrs M F Lester, of Bishop's Nymphton, Devon; husband of Eleanor Lester, 13 Rivers Street, Bath 
He is buried in grave S V L 9 St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen
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B A  Rector of Rackenford, Devon
 
The Rev Archibald Owen Carwithen LONGRIDGE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 11th General Hospital, Boulogne
He died in 11th General Hospital, Boulogne from natural causes on 12 October 1918. He was 38
He was the son of Michael Longridge and the husband of Constance Longridge, 2 Clystlands, Topsham  M A
He is buried in grave 1 1684 Topsham Cemetery but why buried in UK
 
The Rev Patrick LOOBY
Chaplain 4th Class
He was killed on the battlefield on 26 October 1917. He was 28
He was the son of Denis and Alice Looby Barrack Street, Cahir, Co Tipperary
He is buried in grave VI E 13 Poelcapelle British Cemetery
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The Revd Fr Patrick Looby (also known as Patrick Luby )
Chaplain 4th Class
The son of Denis and Alice Looby he was born at Cahir, Co Tipperary Ireland on the 23 February 1889 He studied at St John's Waterford and the Irish College, in Paris He was Ordained by Bishop Sheehan on the 21st June 1914. He was Curate of St Alphonsus in the Liverpool R C Diocese Becoming a Chaplain to the forces in 1915 He was killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium on 26 October 1917 Buried in Poelcapelle British Cemetery Grave Ref V1E 13
He is remembered on the Aldershot Memorial
Reverend Fr Patrick Looby was commissioned as a Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class (The equivalent to a Captain) on 22.8.1915.
He was a member of the ARMY CHAPLAINS' DEPARTMENT.  
 5th Northumberland Fusiliers in 1916.
After obtaining the War Diary for the period, it also contained the diary for the battalion for 1917. Whilst reading through it, I came across the
following entry.
"Casualties on 26th October as cander"
"Missing:- Rev. P. Looby  CF (RC Chaplain)"
So it follows that Rev Looby was killed whilst attached to the 5th Northumberland Fusilers who were in the SCHAAP BALIE sector at the time. The casualties were 1 Officer Killed, 7 Officers Wounded, 4 Missing (including Rev Looby) Other Ranks Killed 60, Wounded 149, Missing 230.
 
The Rev Stanley Gibson McMURTRIE
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 14 June 1919 at 14 Fitzroy Square, St Pancras . He was 41
He was the son of Hugh B McMurtrie
He is buried in grave South 284 St John Churchyard, Egremont
Additional information
Education Bath and Llandovery, won an Mathematics Exhibition to St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. BA 1899. He played rugby for St. Catherine's.
Stanley Gibson McMurtrie, M.A., Chaplain 4th Class, Army Chaplains' Department. Stanley was born in 1877 at Frome, the son of Hugh McMurtrie, of Bank House, Highbridge, Somerset.  Stanley was educated at Stanley maintained his association with Llandovery, and played cricket in the Old Boys' Match at the School in 1897. He also contributed to the College Building Fund in 1899.
In 1903 he was curate at Grange Sylvae, West Shankhill, Belfast, then at Seapatrick, Barbridge, He was appointed Ministering Canon at Kilkenny Cathedral, becoming Curate of the Cathedral. Next he was at St. Saviour's, Woolcott Park, Bristol, and in 1912 he was at St James's with All Saints, New Brighton, Birkenhead.
In 1916 Stanley applied to join the Royal Army Chaplain's Department and posted to 60th Division on the Western Front in June 1916. In November 1916, the Division moved to Salonika, and then to Palestine. However, he had contracted trench-fever and was invalided home and discharged in 1917. He then became the Vicar of Egremont, Cheshire, but he had never really recovered from his illness and died in London following an operation.
 
The Rev John Campbell MACGREGOR
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 4th Battalion The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
He died from natural causes on 4 November 1916. He was 46.
He was the son of John and Catherine MacGregor and the husband of Robina R 
Minister of St Oran's Parish Church, Edinburgh A native of Taynuilt, Argyll
He is buried in grave I D 5 Janval Cemetery, Dieppe
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No info in swd FRGS VD A member of Kingsknowe Golf Club
 
The Rev Cornelius McAULIFFE
Chaplain
He died from natural causes on 6 October 1916
He is buried in grave 30861 St Lawrence's Catholic Cemetery Limerick
 
The Rev John Joseph McDONNELL
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 55th Machine Gun Company
He was killed on the battlefield on 9 April 1918. He was 41.
He was the son of the late Edmond and Johanna McDonnell, of Cork
He is buried in grave II B 8 Beuvry Communal Cemetery Extension
 
The Rev Henry Cuthbert McGINITY
Captain attached to 23rd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
He died from natural causes on 8 November 1918. He was 36
He was the son of Francis Patrick and Edith Rachel McGinity of Waterloo, Lancashire
He is buried in grave 5 C 11 Giavera British Cemetery, Arcade
 
The Rev John Joseph McILVAINE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 2nd/7th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
26/02/1918. He was 39
He was the son of Eleanor Hatton (formerly McIlvaine), and the late William McIlvaine
He is remembered on the Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton
Additional information
Previously wounded and gassed in France
 
The Rev Alban Bodley MACE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
He was killed on the battlefield on 3 October 1916. He was 31
He was the son of the Revd and Mrs J C Mace, late of Hawley, Hants and the husband of Evelyn Mace, 3 St Mark's Road, Alverstoke, Gosport
He is buried in grave II H 1 Struma Military Cemetery
 
The Rev. Charles William Wykeham MAJOR
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 19 March 1919. He was 41
He was the son of Charles and Ellen Major of Bridgwater and the husband of Ida Anne Major, 23 Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone
He is buried in grave IX B 9 Cologne Southern Cemetery
Additional Information
His address for Probate was Combe Raleigh Rectory, Devonshire
 
The Rev Charles A MARONA
Chaplain 3rd Class
28 February 1915
Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hurstpierpoint
Additional information
Not in swd His headstone which was erected privately is inscribed “The Reverend Charles Antonio Marona AKC Rector of this parish and Chaplain to the Garrison at Newhaven, Sussex Died 28 Feb. 1915 age 56. Resurgam! Jesu Mercy
 
The Rev Cecil Radcliffe MARTYN                Twice MiD
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes in Rouen on 3 March 1919. He was 44.
He was the son of Henry Matthews Martyn and Helena Sara Martyn and the husband of Christine F M Martyn, Crescent House, Effingham Road, Surbiton
He is buried in grave S V M 8 St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen
Additional Information
He born near Topsham in Devon, educated at Lancing College then Hatfield Hall, Durham University gaining a BA in 1900. He was ordained in 1900, a Priest in 1901. He was appointed Curate, St John the Baptist Church in Bradwardine Worcester and Curate-in-charge of Polesworth with Dordon. In 1910 he became Rector of St Quinton with Warley Woods, Birmingham in 1910 and was Vicar of Tamerton Foliot in Devon when he joined the Army. His address for Probate was The Vicarage Tamerton Foliot Devon
 
The Rev Lewis Joseph MATTHEWS       MiD
Chaplain 1st Class
He died from natural causes on 26 May 1916
He served in the Nile Expedition (1898) and in the South African Campaign (MiD)
Cardinals 2650, St Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery Kensal Green
 
The Rev Charles Gustave Clark MEISTER            MC MiD
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 10th Battalion, Princes Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
He was killed on the battlefield on 18 April 1918. He was 36.
He was the son of Charlotte Clark, 58 Sciennes Road, Edinburgh and the late Frederic Meister
He is buried in grave IV E 1 La Clytte Military Cemetery
Additional information
MA Assistant Priest at Old St Paul's, Edinburgh Born at Edinburgh then Seaforth Highlanders  Educated George Watson’s University
 
The Rev George MILLAR
Chaplain 4th Class attached 13th General Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps
He died of natural causes on 26 August 1917. He was 45.
He was the son of George and Jessie Rennie Millarand the husband of Agnes H Millar, 70 Colinton Road, Edinburgh
He is buried in grave VII A 27 Boulogne Eastern Cemetery
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Minister of Paterson United Free Church, Kirkwall, Orkney Native of Dundee
 
The Rev Charles Wand MITCHELL
Chaplain 4th Class attached 8th Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment
He died from his wounds on 3 May 1917. He was
He was the son of
He is buried in grave IV E 28 Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras
Additional information
 
Charles Wand Mitchell, son of Mr. Robert Mitchell, Maple Braes, Lennoxville, Quebec, was born April 9, 1878. He was educated first at the little country school near his home, then at the Lennoxville Academy; he then had a distinguished career at Bishop's College University, Lennoxville, ending as a Lecturer in 1901. He came up to Cambridge in 1902 as an Advanced Student, passing the required standard in the Theological Tripos in 1903 and the Oriental Languages Tripos (Hebrew and Aramaic) in 1904. He must have worked hard and been well trained in |iv Canada, for in 1903 his knowledge and power of expression was much above that of the average student, and it was no surprise to those who had seen his work to hear that he gained the Tyrwhitt University Scholarship (Hebrew) in 1903, and the Jeremie Prize (Septuagint, etc.) in 1904.1
In the following year (1905) Mitchell was appointed Hebrew Master at Merchant Taylors' School, London, a post which he held till he went out to the Front as a Chaplain. He was ordained in 1907, and took his M.A. in 1912.
The very sympathetic notices that appeared in various papers and periodicals at the time of Mitchell's death speak of his varied interests in Merchant Taylors' School, in the parish work of S. Thomas, Telford Park, Streatham Hill, with which he was connected, and of his admirable devotion as an Army Chaplain in the most acute form of Active Service. It is right here, however, to give the chief place to his services to Oriental scholarship, by which indeed he will be permanently remembered.
A full though characteristically modest account of his work of decipherment will be found in the Preface to Volume I. Mitchell had begun before he left Cambridge to work at the portion of S. Ephraim's Prose Refutations, which had been published by Overbeck in 1865, but never translated into English; 2 his new post at Merchant Taylors' School allowed him leisure and also easy access to the British Museum, where the MS. of the Refutations has its home. This MS., which in its original state must have been a very handsome book, now survives in two parts, very differently preserved. The first 19 leaves (i.e. two quires) are very much in their original condition; they are as legible to-day as when they were written some 1400 years ago, and any one who knows the Syriac alphabet and the ordinary rules of Syriac grammar can transcribe them. This is the portion published long ago by Overbeck (B.M. Add. 14574). The remaining 88 leaves (i.e. nine quires), or very nearly five-sixths of the whole, were turned into a Palimpsest in 823 A.D.; that is to say, the quires were unbound, the sheets of vellum washed, so that the writing was effaced, and then when covered with fresh writing the leaves were bound up into a new volume (B.M. Add. 14623), the new order of the leaves being of course |v quite different from the old. These operations were very thoroughly carried out. It is difficult entirely to eradicate older writing in this way, but the excellent facsimiles given in Vol. I. will shew the reader that the MS. has a most discouraging appearance to any one who sets out to read the older text. I myself had spent some time over it twenty years ago, and did not feel inclined to go on.3 It was Mitchell's great merit that he had the courage to go on. He began to copy out what he found legible, and gradually the new fragments amounted to a considerable body of text, which he began to print.
In 1908 the work of printing was stopped by what he describes as 'a fortunate turn of events,' i.e. by the decision of Dr. Barnett, keeper of Oriental manuscripts in the British Museum, to apply a reagent to the illegible portions of the palimpsest. The happy result is described in Mitchell's preface. What however is not to be found there is a statement of the fact that it was Mitchell's patience and perseverance in transcribing so much of the faded writing that moved the authorities of the British Museum to relax their usual rules.
It is not to be supposed that even after the reagent has been applied it is an easy matter to make out the older writing of B.M. Add. 14623. It is hard enough to verify what has been correctly deciphered, and doubly difficult to make out the text for the first time. To do it needs patience, determination, a good knowledge of Syriac idiom and of Ephraim's style, and specially good and trained eyesight. All these Mitchell had, with the result that he was able to transcribe whole columns of text that at first sight seem absolutely invisible. He made mistakes now and then, of course, but the general correctness of his decipherments has been attested by the discovery in other MSS. of short extracts from the Refutations.4
The text of these Refutations, which shed such a flood of light upon religious and philosophical thought in the Euphrates Valley sixteen centuries ago, will always be connected with the name of C. W. Mitchell, but his interests and activities were in no way confined to the past. He was a man of fine physique, and an enthusiastic teacher and leader of boys and young men. And he never forgot that he was a Canadian. When the first Canadian contingent came over and landed at Plymouth he felt it impossible that they should be in the post of danger and he stay behind in England, and in 1915 he became a Chaplain to the Forces, first |vi at Shorncliffe, then with Bishop Gwynne during the winter of 1915-16 at General Head Quarters, and finally, as he wished, he went to the Front as Chaplain to the 8th Battalion East Yorks.
I have written, at length about Mitchell's services to Oriental and Patristic literature, because this is the place to do so and because his permanent fame will be connected with that side of his activity. But I have no doubt, if testimony be worth anything in human affairs, that it was as a Padre in the very Front Line that he found the life that was most congenial to his whole being. "One sees here," he wrote to me from France (28 Feb., 1916), "another palimpsest: and ancient features in town and countryside are disappearing beyond all the subtleties of chemistry to restore." Yet he was still more concerned about his men. "He was always up near the men," wrote Col. de la Perelle, his Commanding Officer, himself a Canadian, "nothing on earth could keep him away;" and it was while he was helping the doctor to bandage the wounded near the firing, line that he was fatally wounded near Monchy, on May 3, 1917.
It is impossible not to regret that one who had so many and such varied gifts of service and encouragement for his fellow-countrymen should have had his career cut short so early. But this at any rate may be said of C. W. Mitchell, that it was given to him to exhibit the example of a life of singular consistency, devoted to the highest ideals that he saw before him. His decipherment of S. Ephraim's Refutations is a permanent contribution to Syriac literature and to the understanding of ancient religious ideas, and when in the future scholars ask what manner of man it was that made this contribution to our knowledge of the distant Past, they will learn that it was one who felt he could not give real help and real encouragement to men in danger and discomfort without himself sharing in the danger and discomfort to which they were exposed, and who met an early death because he did share in the dangers of these others.
 
The Rev Walter Philip MONTAGU(E)
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 22nd Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery
He died from the wounds he had previously received on 31 October 1918. He was 32
He was the son of Robert Acheson Cromie Montagu and Annie Margaret Montagu (nee McMicking), of Cromore, Portstewart, Co. Londonderry
He is buried in grave III A 1 Awoingt British Cemetery
 
The Rev Robert John MONTEITH
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 70th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
He died of his wounds on 27 November 1917. He was 40.
He was the son of Joseph Monteith of Carstairs, Lanarkshire
He is buried in grave I D 11 Ribecourt British Cemetery
 
The Rev Edgar Noel MOORE          MC
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 20th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
He was killed on 5 January 1918. He was 28.
He was the son of Arthur Louis and Augusta Cecilia Moore, Stokes Croft, Finchley Lane Hendon
He is buried in grave VII V 5 Railway Dugouts Burial Ground
Additional information
Education Highgate School, Exeter College, Oxford and Cheshunt Theological College. Ordained 1913 Curate at St Simon Zelotes, Bethnal Green. Went with YMCA to Ypres in 1916
London Gazette 9 January 1918:
Rev Edgar Noel Moore
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty While the battalion to which he was attached was forming up in the assembly position, they were heavily shelled, but with splendid disregard of danger he walked along the top tending the wounded and consoling the dying Throughout four days of heavy fighting, he displayed a magnificent example of courage to all ranks whilst burying the dead and assisting to carry stretchers, under heavy shell fire
 
The Rev Samuel MORRISON
Chaplain 4th Class
He died on 24 July 1920. He was 60
He was the son of Captain William Morrison and the husband of Janet Isabella Morrison, 50 College Road, Whalley Range, Manchester
He is buried in grave S CE 4 Manchester Southern Cemetery
Additional Information
He was born at Carrickfergus, Co Antrim
Presbyterian Minister
 
The Rev W O O'CONOR
Chaplain 3rd Class
24 January 1919
He is buried in grave V A 7 Tehran War Cemetery
Additional information
Hamadan
O’Conor          The Reverend W. O.  -          Chaplain 3rd Class     Army Chaplains' Department 24/01/1919            40
Further Information     Son of the late Aylward O.B.O’Conor, Glenageary Kingstown. Buried/Commemorated Tehran War Cemetery Iran.
 
The Very Rev Laurence O'DEA or Lawrence?
Chaplain 4th Class
He died on 4 November 1917. He was 66.
He was the son of Kyran and Mary O'Dea of William Street, Kilkenny OSFC
He is buried in grave Crawley Monastery Burial Ground
 
The Rev Isidore James O'MEEHAN
Chaplain 4th Class
He died on 19 December 1919. He was 52
He was the son of Thomas and Catherine O'Meehan
He is buried in grave XII E 3 Amara War Cemetery
Additional Information
I suspect that he was a Franciscan monk?
He was born at Ennis, Co Clare
 
ONSLOW-CARLTON
 
The Rev Benjamin Garniss O'RORKE          DSO
Chaplain 2nd Class
He died from natural causes at the Military Hospital, Falmouth on 25 December 1918. He was 43
He was the son of J W and Annie O'Rorke and the husband of Myra Roberta O'Rorke, 17 Evelyn Court, Cheltenham.
He is buried in grave L B 9 Falmouth Cemetery, Cornwall
Additional information
Educated Nottingham and Exeter College, Oxford. BA 1887, MA 1901
He joined the Army on 1 August 1901 and served in South Africa (Queens' Medal and 4 Clasps)
In WW1 he was Chaplain to the Forces (C of E). He was captured by the Germans at Landrecies 26 August 1914 and held prisoner for 10 months 1914-15. On his release he was
Senior Chaplain of 33rd Division for nine months. Senior Chaplain of XI th Army Corps for two months then Assistant to the Deputy Chaplain-General, BEF.
He published: 'African Missions' 1912, 'Our opportunities in the West Indies' 1913 and 'In the hands of the Enemy' 1915
 
The Rev Donal Vincent O'SULLIVAN
Chaplain 4th Class attached to The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
He was killed on the battlefield on 5 July 1916. He was 26.
He was the son of Hannah O'Sullivan, 6 High St, Killarney, and the late D F O'Sullivan
Professor St Brendan’s Seminary, Killarney
He is buried in grave Right of entrance to the Extension Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery
 
The Rev George Southey PARDOE or Pardee?
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 15 October 1918 . He was 41
He was the son of George Owen Pardoe, and Letitia Pardoe, of Shropshire; husband of Gertrude Pardoe, of Southcote, Baldock, Herts
e is buried in grave R 108 Jerusalem War Cemetery
 
The Rev The Hon Maurice Berkeley PEEL             MC and Bar
Chaplain 4th Class
He was killed on the battlefield on 14 May 1917. He was 44.
He was the son of Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel, former Speaker of the House of Commons; husband of the late Emily Peel Vicar of Tamworth since 1915
He is buried in grave V A 31 Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy
 
The Rev Somerset Edward PENNEFATHER
Chaplain 2nd Class
He died from natural causes on 29 August 1917. He was 69.
He was the son of John Pennefather, KC, Merrion Square, Dublin; husband of the late Catherine Emily Pennefather
DD Aberdeen 1894
He is buried in grave 56 21 and 22 (Hanwell) Cemetery Kensington
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Pennefather, Somerset Edward, as John, of St Peter's, Dublin, arm Pembroke Coll, matric 25 Oct, 1 871, aged 23 ; BA from Trinity Coll, Dublin, 1876, MA 1876, vicar of Christ Church, Wakefield, 1874-5, of Kenilworth 1875-82, and of Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Civil registration
 
The Rev Charles Benjamin PLUMMER
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 61st Infantry Brigade
He was killed on the battlefield on 12 March 1917. He was 27
He was the son of the Rev Canon Francis Bowes Plummer and Edith Mary Plummer, of Halewood Rectory, Halewood, Liverpool
He is buried in grave A 5 Carnoy Military Cemetery
 
The Rev Basil Pemberton PLUMPTRE      MC
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 1st/21st Battalion London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles)
He was killed on the battlefield on 16 July 1917. He was 34.
He was the son of the Rev Charles P and Clara Plumptre, of 11 South Park, Sevenoaks,
He is buried in grave II F 36 La Clytte Military Cemetery
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Kent MA
 
The Rev Walter Harry POWLEY
Chaplain 4th Class
He died on 23 February 1919 at the General Military Hospital, Edmonton. He was 41.
He was the son of James and Elizabeth Ann Powley and the husband of Margaret Elizabeth Powley, Rose Bank, 192 Brownhill Road, Catford
He is buried in grave E4 2 RN 17242 in Abney Park Cemetery
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His address Probate was 8 Radclife Road, Winchmore Hill
 
The Rev Arthur Morrell PRATT
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 6th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment
He was killed whilst riding a horse on 29 June 1917. He was 42.
He was the husband of Violet Pratt, Redcroft, Branksome Park, Bournemouth MA, Queen''s College, Oxford, and Incumbent of St Giles Church, Willenhall, Staffs since 1909
He is buried in grave Officers, B 8 5 St Sever Cemetery, Rouen
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Link to photo
 
The Rev Mathew Vincent PRENDERGAST
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 16/09/1918. He was 37
He was the son of Patrick Prendergast, Ballysaggart, Lismore, Co Waterford
He is buried in grave M 179 Cairo War Memorial Cemetery
 
The Rev Foster RAINE
Chaplain 4th Class
7 December 1918. He was 29
He is buried in St Martin's Churchyard, Isles of Scilly
He was the husband of Ida M Raine
Additional information
He was found hanging in the First Class compartment of a train from Penzance to Plymouth. He was wearing women’s boots. He had left the Scilly Islands where he had been living a couple of days earlier. The Times, 10 December 1918
He was a Minister in the United Reform Church
 
The Rev William Henry RANKINE
Chaplain 2nd Class
He died of natural causes on 11 July 1919. He was 56
He was the son of Adam R and Joanna Currie Rankine and the husband of Helen Anderson Rankine
He is buried in the south-west corner of the churchyard, Kirkmichael Parish church, Ayrshire
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He was educated at Edinburgh University, MA (1883); BD (1886); and was licensed by Presbytery of Kirkcaldy on 4 May 1886 and ordained to Slamannan in 1887 and then St Boswells in 1891. He transferred to Titwood in 1897 which is where he died
In 1915-16 he served as Chaplain to the Forces, Mediterranean.
He published several books, a Biography of the Rev. William Affleck Scott. (1896); The Call to Disciple- ship, The Secret of Christian Giving, The Present Crisis in Missions and others.
 
The Rev George Harvey RANKING,
Chaplain 4th Class attached to IV Corps, Heavy The Royal Artillery
He was killed on the battlefield at Cambrai on 20 November 1917. He was 46.
He was the son of Harvey Ranking and the husband of Violet Ranking, Open Combe, Marley Heights, Haslemere, Surrey.
He is buried in grave F 3 Hermies British Cemetery
 
The Rev Eric Oswald READ
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 5th Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment
He was killed on the battlefield on 3 October 1918. He was 30
He was the son of George O and Dora Read and the husband of Alice Read, Gorsefield,
Giles Lane, Canterbury 
He is buried in grave C 3 Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-Lestree
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Native of Thetford, Norfolk
 
The Rev Clifford Hugh REED            MC
Chaplain 4th Class
He was killed on the battlefield on 7 June 1917. He was 28
He was the son of William Henry and Caroline Reed, Thornlea, Cowley Road, Exeter
He is buried in grave I A 12 Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery
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MA Wesleyan
 
The Rev W H RICHARDS
Chaplain 3rd Class
He died of natural causes on 19 February 1920
He is buried to the west of St Beuno's Chapel in the churchyard of St Beuno, Clynnog Fawr
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Add county for clarity
 
The Rev Charles ROBERTSON        MC
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from the wounds he had previously received on 3 October 1918. He was 39
He was the son of Hope and Catherine McLeish Robertson of Kinclaven, Perthshire
He is buried in grave 421 Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria
 
The Rev Francis Cavendish ROCHE
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 14 November 1915. He was 33
He was the son of the late George Major Roche, of Dublin, and of Jane Roche, of Rosemary Lodge, Felixstowe 
He is buried in grave J 2 Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery Alexandria
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Served in the South African Campaign as Trooper in Irish Horse. Born at Dublin 
 
The Rev Benjamin Corrie RUCK-KEENE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 8th Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment
He was killed on the battlefield on 26 September 1917
He is buried in grave I F 37 Ypres Reservoir Cemetery
 
The Rev Michael RYAN
Chaplain
He died from natural causes on 1 November 1916. He was 59
He was the son of Patrick and Sabina Ryan of Loughrea, Co Galway, Republic of Ireland
He is remembered on face 11 of the Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial
 
The Rev Samuel John Woodhouse SANDERS
Chaplain 2nd Class attached to 4th Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment
9 December 1915. He was 69
He is buried in grave Cons Zone A No 6 Rothley Cemetery
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Recent research has shown that this gentleman is buried here 
Not in swd death reg barrow
MA LLD MA , LLD N B
This is a long shot he couldn't be The Rev Canon Samuel John Woodhouse Sanders?
Death Reg Dec Qtr 1915 at Barrow S RD aged 69 years (Died 9th Dec 1915?)
1915 Army lists have Rev Canon S. J. W. Sanders MA LLD, Chaplain 2nd Class (TF attd) Leicestershire Regiment
3 Mar 09 3 Mar 94 LG March 2 1894 1st Volunteer Battalion, the Northamptonshire Regiment, The Reverend Canon Samuel John Woodhouse Sanders, M.A., LL.D., to be Acting Chaplain. Dated 3rd March, 1894  [Source: The Yorkshire Evening Post, Wednesday, 19 January, 1916. p. 5] The Yorkshire Evening Post, Tuesday, 1 February, 1916. p. 7
 
The Rev Cecil Herbert SCHOOLING                      MiD
Chaplain 4th Class attached 122nd Infantry Brigade
He died of his wounds on 21 June 1917. He was 32.
He was the son of Rev Frederick and Lily Schooling, of Hilly Dene, Bromley, Kent
He is buried in grave XIII A 21 Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
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Born Wandsworth Common, London
 
The Rev James SHINE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 21st Battalion (Yeoman Rifles), The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
He died of his wounds on 21 April 1918. He was 37.
He was the son of Thomas and Mary Shine of Ballylaffin, Ardfinnan, Cahir, Co Tipperary
He is buried in grave VII B 40 Boulogne Eastern Cemetery
 
The Rev Thomas Jasper SHOVEL
Chaplain 4th Class attached to the 2nd Wessex Royal Field Artillery
He died of his wounds on 5 October 1918. He was 34.
He was the son of Thomas and Ellen Shovel, of Upton Cross, Linkinhorne, Cornwall
He is buried in grave A 6 Louverval Military Cemetery, Doignies
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Wesleyan
 
The Rev Fred/Frederick Seaton SMITH
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 13th Battalion, The  York and Lancaster Regiment
He died from natural causes on 15 November 1918. He was 31
He is buried in grave XI A 29 Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille
Native of Pocklington, Yorkshire
 
P G SMITH
 
The Rev Alexander SPENCE           M C
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 10th (Derry) Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
He died of his wounds on 31 March 1918 whilst he was a prisoner of war. He was
He was the son of
He is buried in grave IV C 17 Roye New British Cemetery
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Is he buried in Ham Cemetery?
 
The Rev Hubert Octavius SPINK
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 55th (West Lancashire) Division
He was killed on the battlefield on 9 August 1916. He was 38.
He was the son of Joseph Simeon Spink and Lucy Dorothea Spink
He is buried in grave II D 46 Dive Copse British Cemetery, Sailly-Le-Sec 
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Previously wounded several times Native of Dulwich, London
 
The Rev Harvey STAUNTON
Chaplain 4th Class
He died in Azizieh from natural causes on 14 January 1918. He was 45
He was the son of the late Rev Frances Staunton, of Staunton Hall, Nottingham Rise, and of Mrs L A Staunton Lees, 5 The Mount, St Leonards-on-Sea
He is buried in grave XX J 7 North Gate War Cemetery Baghdad
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Selwyn College, Cambridge Ordained 1896 Curate at Boxford and then Rector of Boughton Sunley. He had been working in India since 1911
 
The Rev Silas William STEVENS
Chaplain 1st Class (TF)
He died from natural causes on 23 October 1915. He was 61
He was the son of James and Mary Anne and the husband of Susan E Stevens
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Schools, St Austin's, Dulwich, St John's, Hurstpierpoint and St John's College, Cambridge MA 1892 LLM 1901     
He was ordained 1885; priest, 1886; Curate in Ryde, Isle of Wight, Vicar in Burley, Hampshire 1889-90 and Rector of St Laurence's, Southampton, 1890-1915.
In addition he was Chaplain of St Marys Workhouse, Southampton
He does not appear in the CWGC website so I have presumed that he was a Territorial
 
The Rev James Robert STEWART
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 2nd Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment
He was killed on the battlefield on 2 January 1916. He was
He was the son of Rev Robert W Stewart of CMS Fuh Kien, China
He is buried in grave II L 11 Bethune Town Cemetery
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He was formerly in West China
 
The Rev Robert Arthur STEWART
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 57th Casualty Clearing Station, Royal Army Medical Corps
He died from natural causes on 3 November 1917, He was
He was the son of
He is buried in grave H 3 St Pol Communal Cemetery Extension
 
The Rev Basil Robert STREETEN
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 2nd/5th Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers
He died from Pneumonia on 1 November 1918. He was 29
He was the son of Mary Streeten of Swinford, Sidcup and the late Rev Robert H Streeton.
He is buried in grave I A 27 Don Communal Cemetery, Annoeullin
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He was educated at Hereford Cathedral School, St John’s College, Cambridge, MA and Wells Theological College. He was ordained in 1912 and served as a Curate at All Hallows Church, Gedling, Nottingham until 1918. He had only arrived in France the month before.
 
The Rev Joseph STRICKLAND
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 12 Brigade, 4th Division
He died from natural causes on 15 July 1917. He was 53
He was the son of Captain Walter Charles Strickland (RN) and the late Nobile Luisa Bonici Strickland
He is buried in Ossuary of the Jesuit Fathers Addolorata Cemetery, Paola, Malta
Additional information
He was a Jesuit who was largely brought up in Malta
 
The Rev Alexander STUART
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 12th Battalion, The Royal Irish Rifles
He was killed on the battlefield on 24 October 1917. He was
He was the son of
He is buried in grave F 5 Ruyaulcourt Military Cemetery
 
The Rev Stephen John SULLINGS
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 54th East Anglian Division, Royal Army Medical Corps
He died on 21 November 1915. He was 47
He was the son of the late Mr and Mrs Thomas Sullings, of Stanford-le-Hope, Essex; husband of the late Edith Sullings
He is buried in grave Screen Wall B10 1 143 Lodge Hill Cemetery, Birmingham
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Wesleyan
 
The Rev A N SUTHERLAND
Chaplain 2nd Class
16 January 1918
He is buried in grave K 402 Glasgow Western Necropolis
Not in SWD
 
The Rev George Charles Walrond SWEET
Chaplain 4th Class
He drowned in the River Cherwell whilst on honeymoon 7 August 1919.  He was 29.
He was the son of the Rev Charles Francis Long and Edith Maud Sweet, Symondsbury Rectory, Bridport and the husband of Phyllis Squire Sweet, Outreau, West Bay, Bridport
He is buried in Holy Cross Churchyard Sampford Arundel
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He was educated at Sherborne School and Keble College, Oxford.
He had married at St James' Church, West Hampstead the previous day 
 
The Rev William TAYLOR
Chaplain 3rd Class
19 October 1916 not in SWD
Husband of Jane G Taylor, 40 Stratheam Road, Edinburgh
He is buried in grave D 2 51 Sleepyhillock Cemetery, Montrose
 
The Rev Thomas John THORPE
Chaplain 4th Class
He died of phthisis (tuberculosis) at home on 20 February 1915. He was 59
He was the husband of Mary Thorpe of Charlton, London.
He is remembered in United Kingdom Book of Remembrance
Additional Information:
Was he a Wesleyan? See Ryland records The London Gazette 20 August 1914 recorded his appointment as temporary Chaplain to the Forces.
 
The Rev William Henry TOMKINS
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 7th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment
He died 28 September 1918. He was    
He was the son of
He is buried in grave IC 7 Cagnicourt British Cemetery
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Killed in action in France, September 29th, 1918.
” Although nominally attached to no Church at the time of his death, Mr. Tomkins had the rare fortune of being enshrined in the affectionate remembrance of every Church which he has ministered, and in the scarcely less affectionate remembrance of large numbers outside those Churches, who counted it a privilege to be associated with him, and whose lives were enriched by his comradeship. His cheery personality, his open-heartedness, his genius for work, his fearless advocacy of the right, his devotedness as a true minister of Jesus Christ, endeared him to those amongst whom he lived, wherever his lot was cast. A son of the manse, he was born 40 years ago at Rushden in Northamptonshire, his father being for a long term of years the [unclear] pastor of the Baptist Church in that town. In early manhood he went to London, and was for several years connected with a large publishing house. But his heart was in Christian work, and after a useful business experience, he entered the Metropolitan College, coming under the helpful influence of the Rev. G.H. Spurgeon and those working alongside him. In 1901 he entered upon the work of the ministry at Yalding, Kent. After a useful pastorate of three years, he was called to Batley, in the West Riding of York, and in the bracing atmosphere of that northern county he spent the remainder of his life, until he responded to the call of his country and gave himself as a chaplain to the army. In the difficult sphere of Batley he worked hard and well, strengthening the Church in numbers and in efficiency. In 1906 he removed to the neighbouring Church of Morley; here he spent seven years of arduous and happy life. During his pastorate the Church-roll increased from 152 to 217; he initiated a [thriving] Brotherhood, and infused energy into every department of the Church’s work. Into every good work of the town he threw himself with ardour; his memory is revered by everybody there, and the news of his loss is mourned as the loss of a true friend. In 1912 he was elected as President of the Leeds District of the Yorkshire Baptist Association, and threw himself into the work of that office his accustomed vigour. Owing to the state of his wife’s health, he left Morley in 1914, and, in accordance with the wish of the Yorkshire Association, took charge of the cause at Doncaster, where he worked with unflagging zeal and won the desired reward. Almost from the commencement of the war, his own position and duty caused him many questionings, but the claims of a strenuous pastorate and the tender duty of ministering to a loved one in delicate health seemed to be paramount, until January, 1917, the way opened out, and he joyfully and whole-heartedly gave himself to the brave lads fighting for us. At [Salonica], in Palestine, then on the Western Front, he served as chaplain, not sparing himself, fearless and intrepid, carrying Christ into the camp, until the call came. We can ill spare such men as William Henry Tomkins. The deep sympathy of all friends will be extended to Mrs. Tomkins in her bereavement.
 
 
The Rev Ernest Wilberforce TREVOR
Chaplain 4th Class attached 13th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own)
He died of his wounds on 14 November 1916. He was 30.
He was the son of the Rev George W Trevor and Mrs A F Trevor, 3 Bloomfield Place,
Bath, one time Rector of Beeford Born at Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorks
He is buried in grave II D 21 Hamel Military Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel
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Rev. E.W. Trevor, M.A., Chaplain to the Forces.
is reported to have been killed in action on Nov. 12, was the younger son of the Rev. G.W. Trevor, Rector of Beecroft, Driffield. His other brother, Capt. H. Trevor, surrendered to the Kut garrison, and is a prisoner-of-war in the hands of the Turks.
 
The Rev Francis Henry TUKE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 53rd Brigade
He was killed on the battlefield near Montaubon on 20 7 1916. He was 49
Husband of Jane Ellen Tuke, of Moss Croft, Halmer, Hereford 
He is remembered on pier and face 4C of the Thiepval Memorial
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Vicar of Ripley, Surrey, 1897-1902; of Hope-under-Dinmore, Herefordshire, 1902-1908; of Holmer, Hereford, 1908-1916
 
The Rev Albert Thomas VERYARD
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 15th Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Artillery
He was killed on the battlefield on 28 June 1917. He was
He was the son of
He is buried in grave II C 9 Roclincourt Military Cemetery
 
The Rev Hatton Bertram St John De VINE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 10th Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
He was killed on the battlefield on 27 April 1916. He was 36.
He was the son of the Rev Wilson T de Vine, MA, RD, Vicar of Tipton, Staffs
He is buried in grave II G 29 Vermelles British Cemetery
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Stone Grammar School, High School Birmingham Qualified as a Solicitor Graduated Jesus College, Cambridge 1913
Curate at Birmingham Cathedral
Chaplain West Riding Regiment
 
The Rev John James WALLACE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 8th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment)
He died from the wounds he had previously received on 8 November 1918. He was 39
He was the son of the late John Lishman Wallace and of Mary A Wallace, 6 Dunvegan Gardens, Eltham Park, London 
He is buried in grave III E 13 Awoingt British Cemetery
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Curate of Outwood, Wakefield
 
The Rev Charles WATSON
Chaplain 4th Class
He died from natural causes on 22 July 1918. He was 51
He was the son of Thomas and V Watson, of Grange of Barrie, Gedinne, Belgium
He is buried in grave IV Q 8 Basra War Cemetery
 
The Rev John Edmund Malone WATSON MC
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 21st (Islington) Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
He died on 10 April 1918 from the wounds he had previously received. He was 31
He was the son of The Rev Johnson Charlemont Rectory, Co Tyrone; husband of Mary K Watson, Ard-Stratha, Antrim Road, Belfast
He is buried in grave E 11 Haverskerque British Cemetery
 
The Rev John WATTERS
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 115th Infantry Brigade HQ
He died from natural causes on 7 November 1918. He was 26
He was the son of Mary Watters, Frenchgrove, Hollymount, Co Mayo and the late James Watters
He is buried in grave III G 9 Awoingt British Cemetery
 
The Rev Cyril Narramore WERE
Chaplain 4th Class Rifle Brigade
He died of natural causes on 9 January 1918. He was 36
He was the son Julia Leite Were and the late Edward Ash Were (Bishop of Stafford) and the husband of Mildred Gladys Were, 14 Christchurch Road, Reading
He is buried in grave II D 53 Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul 
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Christ Church, Oxford Ordained 1904 Curate at Bramshott, Samford Brett, Addlestone and then appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield in 1911 and then to the Bishop of Southwark in 1914
 
The Rev Charles B WHITEFOORD
Chaplain 4th Class attached 6th (City of London) Battalion (Rifles), The London Regiment
He died of his wounds on 30 May 1918. He was
He was the brother of Mr C A B Whitefoord, 36 Broad St, Ludlow, Salop
He is buried in grave II E 23 Bagneux British Cemetery, Gezaincourt
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previously Rector of Winterbourne Monkton
 
The Rev Walter Charles WILKS      MC
Chaplain 3rd Class attached to 7th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment
He was killed on the battlefield on 4 October 1917. He was 35
He was the son of Samuel Hawes Wilks and Maria Nice Wilks
He is buried in grave V A 1 Bard Cotthe War Cemetery
Sen Chap NC of E
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I think he is Chales?
Student at Headingley Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Wesleyan
 
The Rev Harold William WOOD
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 282nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
He died from natural causes on 1 November 1918. He was 31
He was the son of the Rev Arthur William and Sarah Ann Wood; husband of Mrs H F Wood, Woodside, Alum Chine Road, Bournemouth
He is buried in grave VI F 45 Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille
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Vicar of Norton
 
The Rev Disney Charles WOODHOUSE
Chaplain 4th Class attached to 12th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment
He died of natural causes on 6 October 1916. He was 32
He was the son of The Rev Arthur C and Mrs Woodhouse, of Pampisford
Grave VII A 5 Cemetery Boulogne Eastern Cemetery
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previously Rector of Winterbourne Monkton
Vicar He was, Cambridge
 
Just cos I don’t want to dump them
 
T HEWETT - No entry in Army List June 1915 - No LG entry - No Times Death Notice - No entry in Army List Oct 1917
Rev T Hewett 4th Class Died Jan 1918?
 
The Reverend Wilfrid Rathmell OGLE late of The Vicarage, Highgate N who died on 28th October 1916. Vicar of Highgate for 20 years and Rural Dean of Hornsey Barrister at Law, Curate at St Michael’s Highgate, St Stephen the Martyr, Marylebone and Chaplain to the Bishop of London and Vicar of St Michael’s Highgate. Vice Dean (Gregory) of St. Paul's
Bishop (Wordsworth) of Salisbury and J. E. Kempe. Born 15 April 1859. Educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Oxford. B.A., 1881 ; MA, 1884 ; Curate of St. Stephen's, Dublin, and Minor Canon of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, 1882-1884; Curate of St. Mark's, North Audley Street, London, 1884-1888; Resident Chaplain to Bishop (Temple) of London, 1888-1891, Chaplain 1888-1896; Curate of Tamworth, Staffs, 1892s ; Curate of St. Stephen's, Marylebone, 1893-1896; Vicar of Highgate, 1896.