'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE'

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Son of Viscount Peel, Speaker of the House of Commons. He was ordained in 1899 after seven years as Curate of St. Simon Zelotes, Bethnal Green, was appointed successively Vicar of Wrestlingham and Eyewirth, Bedfordshire, and Rector of St. Pauls, Beckenham. Immediately war broke out he volunteered his services as a chaplain and went to France in October 1914 with the 7th Division, being awarded the M.C. early in 1915. He accompanied the men wherever they went, and at the Battle of Festubert personally led one of the battalions of his brigade to the attack, carrying nothing but a walking stick. He fell in that action severely wounded in four places but refused to be attended to till all the other cases had been dealt with. He was sent home to England, and took a year to recover, and in the course of that year was appointed to the living of Tamworth.

In 1917 he again volunteered, and was sent to his old battalion. His practice was to live with the men in the line and in action to go over with the third wave, so that he might tend all those who had fallen earlier. After the capture of Puisieux he received a bar to his M.C.; and was killed shortly afterwards - on May 14th, 1917 - at Bullecourt, while going out to rescue a wounded man.

Mr Peel married in 1909 Miss Emily Alington, who died in 1912, and left two children.

Andy

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The Reverend George Harvey RANKING, C.F.

Army Chaplains Department.

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George Harvey Ranking was the only son of Harvey and Margaret Ranking, of Hitcham Vale, Taplow.

In 1907 he bacame Curate of Lambeth Parish Church. In 1911 he was appointed by the Archbishop of York to the cure of a pit village, Woodlands, near Doncaster. There his church grew from an iron shed to a permament building, and he became the first Vicar of All Saints, Woodlands. In 1915 he was appointed Vicar of Fernhurst, near Haslemere, Sussex.

In March, 1917, he was appointed Chaplain to the Forces, crossed over to France and was attached to the 18th Heavy Siege Battery, R.G.A. He was killed instantaneously by a bursting shell, while carrying comforts to the wounded, near Havrincourt Wood, on the first day of the advance on Cambrai, on November 20th, 1917. Age 46. He was buried in the British Cemetery at Hermies.

Andy

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Rev. Cyril Narramore WERE

Chaplain to the Forces

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Ordained in 1904 and after seven years at Bramshott, Samford Bett and Addlestone was appointed domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield. In 1914 he went to Southwark to become domestic chaplain to Dr. Burge.

He died on January 8th, 1918, while his battalion (12th Battalion Rifle Brigade) in the support trenches, and was buried at Bailleul.

Mr. Were married in 1907 Miss M.G. Tripp and leaves one son.

Andy

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Rev. Disney Charles WOODHOUSE.

Chaplain to the Forces.

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He was ordained in 1906 and in 1909 was appointed lecturer at Bishop Wilson's Theological College, Isle of Man, of which he was afterwards Principal. In 1915 he became Candidate's Secretary of the Church Missionary Society and in the following January obtained a year's leave to take up a chaplaincy with the Forces.

He served for four months at a Casualty Clearing Station in France and was transferred thence to a battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment; with them he went the Battle of the Somme. He died in hospital in France on October 6th, 1916.

Andy

[Desmond7]

Name: STUART, The Rev. A.

Initials: A

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Chaplain 4th Class

Regiment/Service: Army Chaplains' Department

Secondary Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles

Secondary Unit Text: attd.

Date of Death: 24/10/1917

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: F. 5.

Cemetery: RUYAULCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

[Audax]

Name: STUART, The Rev. A.

Initials: A

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Chaplain 4th Class

Regiment/Service: Army Chaplains' Department

Secondary Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles

Desmond,

Officers Died indicates that Rev Alexander Stuart was Killed in Action whilst attached to the 12th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.

Is anyone able to provide any additional info, ie date of commission, denomination or home town?

A

[michaeldr]

I was looking at the Matson collection on the LoC web-site today

[MATSON (G. ERIC AND EDITH) NEGATIVES [matpc] -- about 13,700 negatives

1898 to 1946. Negatives made by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor, the Matson Photo Service, illustrating Middle East culture, history, and political events including people and locations in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip) see http://memory.loc.gov/pp/matpcquery.html]

and came across this photograph the grave of

Name: KAVANAGH, The Rev. B

Initials: B

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Chaplain 4th Class

Regiment/Service: Army Chaplains' Department

Age: 53

Date of Death: 21/12/1917

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Q. 82.

Cemetery: JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, Israel

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ROYAL NAVY CHAPLAINS WHO DIED 1914 - 1919 (with names of ships)

Alexander, Philip George. Hampshire. June 5-1916. JUTLAND

Back, Hatfield Arthur William. Vanguard. July 9-1917.

Browning, Guy Arrott. Indefatigable. May 31-1916. JUTLAND

Creed, Algernon Henry George. Orvieto. May 21-1917.

Dathan, Joseph Duncan. Pembroke. January 7-1918.

Ford, William Lewis. Suffolk. May 9-1918. (in Vladivostock)

Greig. George Anthony. Russell in Malta. April 28-1916.

Hall, William. Agamemnon. November 4-1916.

Hewetson, George Hayton. Bulwark. November 24-1914.

Kewney, George Stanley. Queen Mary. May 31-1916. JUTLAND

Lewis, Ivor Morgan. Goliath. May 13-1915.

Lydall, Cecil Wykeham. Lion. May 31-1916. - JUTLAND

Milner, Dermond Ross. Garth Castle. September 17-1919.

Morgan, George William Faulconer. Invincible. May 31-1916. JUTLAND

Patourel, Wallace Mackenzie Le. Defence. May 31-1916. JUTLAND

Pitt, Arthur Henry John. Good Hope. November 1-1914.

Robinson, George Brooke. Formidable .January 1-1915.

Robson, Edward Gleedhall Uphill. Aboukir. September 22-1914.

Sweet, Algernon Sidney Osborne. Natal. December 30-1915.

Walton, Cyril Ambrose. Chester. May 31-1916. JUTLAND

Webber, William Farel. Black Prince. May 31-1916. JUTLAND

Wright, Henry Dixon, M.V.O. Barham. May 31-1916. JUTLAND

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Cyril Walton's name on the HMS Chester Memorial

[Richard Green]

The information on this forum is great thank you.

 

re entry number 66 - H. Green

This is Rev Herbert Green MC   Born: 16/01/1889 Died: 24/08/1917

He joined the RNVR on 11/09/1914 and obtained the rank of Temporary Lieutenant however on 08/09/1916 he was transferred to the Army as a Chaplain 4th class having been recently been ordained.

He arrived at the front on 19/10/1916 at Le Fermont/Wailly having sent some time at a Stationary Hospital. He was attached to the 41st Machine Gun Company but supported the needs of the 41st Brigade in the 14th Division.

His journal mentions that he delivered a Good Friday service in the caves at Arras

He obtained his MC during the Second Battle of Arras.

He is buried in The Huts Cemetery at Dickebusch (now Dikkebus) SW of Ypres.

 

[DoubleD]

Haven’t seen this thread before and I had no idea that Chaplains were commemorated at Aldershot.

I’ve recently uploaded the stories of a couple of chaplains to the CWGC For Evermore platform. Hoping the links work. Here are George Anthony Greig and Charles Robertson. 

 

https://www.cwgc.org/stories/stories/the-reverend-chaplain-george-anthony-greig-rn-died-in-royal-naval-hospital-malta/

 

https://www.cwgc.org/stories/stories/chaplain-rev-charles-robertson-mc-12th-argyll-and-sutherland-highlanders-dow-3-october-1918/