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Ushaw College, Durham - Roll of Honour


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Thanks, michael. I notice a couple of points. Only officers have their ranks shown & Finn is described as the first chaplain killed in the war on 25/4/15. I find that surprising! Or do they mean the first Ushaw chaplain? Phil B

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Phil,

Father Finn was the first Chaplain to be ‘Killed-in-Action’ in WWI;

he landed with his regiment, the 1st Batt., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, at ‘V’ Beach, Helles, Gallipoli, on 25th April 1915 and died that same day while tending the wounded there.

He was not however the first chaplain to die in the war; as far as I am aware, Cannon Robert Basil Gwydir OSB of Douai Abbey and St. David’s Priory, Swansea, was the first chaplain of any faith in all services to die in WWI. He died on 30th October 1914 when the Home Fleet Hospital Ship ‘Rohilla’ went down in a storm off Whitby.

You are correct about the omission of details in certain cases and it is regrettable, however this Roll of Honour was produced very soon after the armistice and then meant for a limited readership.

Regards

Michael D.R.

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  • 1 year later...

Hi Phil,

I am looking through my piles of papers

Thinking that I could lay my hands on them strait away

But it seems that it may take longer than I thought

Will get back to you asap

Regards

Michael D.R.

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re-posting Ushaw's Roll of Honour

if quality of repro not good enough

please contact me and I will try to improve

Regards

Michael D.R.

Page 1: UshawRollofHonourPage1.jpg

Pages 2 & 3

UshawRollofHonourPages23.jpg

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No problem Phil

Yes, I visited the college some years ago

They were very helpful

I will PM you with a few more details

Regards

Michael D.R.

ps: If you go to Ushaw then you must see the chapel

Like the Houses of Parliament it was designed by the Pugin family

The war memorial tablet is also very close by

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PPS; before the corrections pour in, Pugin assisted Barry on the HoP

See - At the outset Barry called in Pugin (1836-37) to complete his half-drawn plans, and he further entrusted to him the working plans and the entire decoration (1837-52). Pugin's own statement on the subject is decisive: "Barry's great work", he said, "was immeasurably superior to any that I could at the time have produced, and had it been otherwise, the commissioners would have killed me in a twelve-month" (i.e. by their opposition and interference).

From - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12558b.htm

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Thanks for the info on the college Michael. I definitely plan to visit on my next trip up north as both my father and grandfather went there.

regards

Phil

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