Royal Naval Chaplains (any denomination) - information request

[seaJane]

Apologies for the vague post, but I shall be grateful to anyone who comes across chaplains in the Royal Navy if they can post details here.

I've more-or-less covered the Gallipoli chaplains (including the two who wrote books that are in Tom Donovan's latest catalogue), and I have those who worked at RNH HASLAR.

It would be good to be able to collate material for a researching colleague.

Thanks!

seaJane

 

[Keith_history_buff]

Charles John Eyre Peshall (13-Nov-1881 - 18-Oct-1957) was present during the Zeebrugge Raid. He has an RAF Officers' service record in AIR 76.

Twelve loose prints of photographs that had been in his possession are now in the IWM collection.

This listing may also be of interest:
https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/community/2307

 

Thanks, Keith

[PRC]

I don’t know how detailed you want it?

 

The Reverend Edward G U Robson, Acting Chaplain (Aboukir), the Reverend George H Collier, Chaplain (Cressy, survived) and the Reverend Wilfred F P Ellis, Chaplain, (Hogue – survived) were with the ill-fated “livebait" squadron on the 22nd September 1914.

 

CWGC has The Rev. E. Gleadall Uphill Robson, aged 32. Son of Thomas and Ann Dean Uphill Robson. M.A.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3049953/robson,-the-rev.-e.-gleadall-uphill/

 

Bio here http://history.hampsteadparishchurch.org.uk/mon_info/abg_a_104a.php

 

On the 1911 Census of England & Wales he was recorded as a Tutor living in one of the Houses that made up a small School at Home Place, Cromer Road, Kelling, Norfolk. He was then aged 29, single and unmarried.

 

Entry in the 1915 Probate Calendar.

Looks like they have been partially discussed in a previous thread in connection with tracking down Naval Chaplains records at the National Archive.

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/275523-rn-chaplains-service-records/

Hope that helps,

Peter

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[seaJane]

Thanks gentlemen, this is all excellent 🙂

[Malcolm12hl]

Jane

 

The Chaplain of H.M.S. GOOD HOPE, lost with all hands at Coronel on 1 November 1914 was the Reverend ARTHUR HENRY JOHN PITT.  I have yet to research him in any depth, but he was born in Warwickshire in 1872 or 1873, and was married in 1908 in Shanghai while serving on H.M.S. FLORA, his marriage certificate revealing that he was the son of Engineer Rear-Admiral John Pitt.

 

I have not found a Chaplain onboard H.M.S. MONMOUTH, sunk in the same action, although I don't know whether this was because there was not one on her complement, or I just haven't found him!

 

Malcolm

[HERITAGE PLUS]

Jane

 

There is a full list of Chaplains present at Jutland, with ships names in Gordon Taylor's Book The Sea Chaplains pages 351-352.

The Falklands page 340

Happy to scan if needed.

 

Chapter 9 (pages 337-390) of the book covers RN Chaplains during  WW1 .

 

Dave

 

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[alf mcm]

James Hagerty's book, 'Priests In Uniform' has a chapter {33 pages} on 'Catholic Chaplains to the Royal Navy'.

 

Regards,

 

Alf McM

[PRC]

The Chaplain aboard H.M.S. Bulwark when she exploded on the 26th November 1914 was the Reverend George H. Hewetson.

 

CWGC has The Reverend George Hayton Hewetson, aged 37. Son of the Revd. John and Isabelle Hewetson; husband of Lilian Mary Hewetson, of Malmers Wells, High Wycombe, Bucks. B.A. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2871341/hewetson,-the-rev.-george-hayton/

 

He attended Worcester College, University of Oxford. Their website adds:-

The Reverend George Hewetson matriculated in 1895, graduated BA in 1901 and became chaplain to the Royal Navy in 1906, serving on HMS Britannia and HMS Minotaur in the China Sea.  At the time of his death he was chaplain on the HMS Bulwark and was killed on 26 November 1914 in an explosion.

Unfortunately the College has no photographs of George Hewetson.

https://www.worc.ox.ac.uk/visiting/library/college-archives/worcester-college-and-first-world-war/college-members-killed-1914

 

On the 1911 Census of England & Wales (2nd April 1911),  the 34 year old Chaplain, George H Hewetson, Church of England, was recorded aboard H.M.S. Minotaur, then under the command of Vice Admiral Sir A.L. Winsloe K.C.B., C.V.O, C.M.G.

George Hewetson at that point was unmarried. His birthplace is shown as Chester, Cheshire. In the absense of any location details on the enumerator sheet I would hazard a guess that the ship was at sea.

 

The marriage of a George H. Hewetson to a Lilian M. Guy was recorded by the Civil Authorities in the District of Knaresborough, Yorkshire in the January to March quarter, (Q1), of 1914.

 

No obvious civil probate for him.

 

The Imperial War Museum War Memorial Project has him listed on a personal memorial in the Church of St Andrew, Chedworth, Gloucestershire. The inscription is stated to read:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ GEORGE HAYTON HEWETSON/ CHAPLAIN R.N./ KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE IN/ H.M.S. BULWARK NOVEMBER 26TH 1914/ AGED 37 YEARS

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/20676

 

His father was Vicar of the Parish until his death in 1908.

 

Chedworth St Andrew brasses north wall of chancel -128 by Guy Thornton, on Flickr

 

Hope that helps.

Peter

 

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[rolt968]

I suspect that you probably know about the Rev Archibald Hugh Conway Fargus.

He was originally recorded as having been lost with HMS Monmouth. However he had missed his train and missed his ship. (Hence no chaplain among the casualties from HMS Monmouth.)

He had played first class cricket, so an obituary appeared in the 1915 Wisden. Ironically when he died no obituary appeared in the Wisden for the following year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Fargus

Information about him appears in a number of books about cricket obituaries.

RM

[Malcolm12hl]

Thank you, RM - now I know why I could not find a chaplain on the MONMOUTH casualty list!

 

Malcolm

[PRC]

The Reverend George Brooke Robinson was lost with HMS Formidable on the 1st January 1915.

 

CWGC simply adds that he was "M.A." https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4004869/robinson,-the-rev.-george-brooke/

 

Brief bio here https://solihulllife.org/2015/01/01/1st-jan-1915/

 

According to this site he was "formerly Curate of Burton Bradstock"

https://www.burtonbradstock.org.uk/History/Wrecks off Burton Bradstock/HMS Formidable.htm

 

On the 1901 Census of England & Wales the 30 year Chaplain, the Reverend Geo. B. Robinson, born India, was recorded aboard the 1st Class Cruiser H.M.S. Theseus, (Captain Vernon A. Tisdall), which was then at Malta. George Robinson was unmarried.

 

By the time of the 1911 Census of England & Wales he was CofE Chaplain on HMS Powerful. Aged 40, he was shown as born Bombay, India. He was still unmarried.

 

1915 Probate Calendar, (note the reference to Alice Irene Robinson means simply she was a widow, not necesarily his widow)

Source: https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Robinson&yearOfDeath=1915&page=4#calendar

 

Cheers,

Peter

 

[seaJane]

Thanks once again everyone

[sotonmate]

sJ

 

You may have seen the 27 listed on Discovery database under "officer service records chaplain" , "ADM339" and "1914-1918" ?

[seaJane]

On 30/06/2020 at 14:57, sotonmate said:

You may have seen

Not yet - thank you

[PRC]

Actually looks like the Chaplains who lost their lives are fairly well covered, plus there are a number on the Lives of the First World War site. So I started looking looking at the 1911 Census of England & Wales on the basis that they would probably still be serving in August 1914. However it kind of grew.

 

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Alexander, Philip George

Died 1916 HMS Hampshire

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7663126

Appointed Chaplain 2nd January 1912 (Page 33 LG 2nd January 1912)

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28568/page/33/data.pdf

St Johns College, Cambridge has the Rev. P.G. Alexander serving aboard HMS Hampshire on their War List.

https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle Chapters/War Lists/War_Lists_1910s.pdf

Aboard H.M.S. Hampshire. Chaplain Philip George Alexander, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Alexander, Ralph Cleave

St Johns College, Cambridge has the Rev. R.C. Alexander serving aboard HMS Russell on their War List. On a later page he is associated with HMS Indus and then H.M.S. Dublin.

https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle Chapters/War Lists/War_Lists_1910s.pdf

Aboard H.M.S. Russell. Chaplain Ralph Cleave Alexander, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

Born c1882 Devon, died 2nd March 1943 at Shaugh Prior Vicarage, Cornwood, near Plymouth.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Alexander&yearOfDeath=1943&page=3#calendar

 

Allen, Claude Albert Broomfield

Aboard H.M.S. King Alfred. Chaplain Claude Albert Broomfield Allen, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

Birth registered Islington District of London Q3 1887. (Dob on death record is 12th August 1887).

1911 Census of England & Wales – Schoolmaster boarding at 16 Beverley Road, Colchester. Born London, Middlesex.

Died 13th May 1977. Home address Trovency, Yarmouth Road, Hemsby, Norfolk.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Allen&yearOfDeath=1977&page=4#calendar

 

Allen, Roland

Aboard H.M.H.S. Rohilla. Acting Chaplain for Temporary Service Roland Allen, M.A.

Seniority 11 August 1914 from September 1914 Monthly Navy List

“When World War I began in 1914, Allen served as a Naval chaplain on boardthe  Royal  Fleet  AuxiliaryH.M.S.Rohilla. Allen’s service,  however,  was  very brief due to an unfortunate violent shipwreck in which some of the crew died;Allen survived a death-defying swim to shore.”

https://churchsociety.org/docs/churchman/117/Cman_117_4_Payne.pdf

Other sources on Roland concentrate on his missionary work and don’t mention him being in the Royal Navy.

See for example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Allen

Apparently his diary from the the Peking Siege during the Boxer Rebellion was turned into a book (“The Siege of the Peking Legations: Being the Diary of the Rev. Roland Allen, M.A.”)

The Wikipedia site records that he died on the 9th June 1947 in Kenya.

He was living then at Hurlingham Road, Nairobi, Kenya.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Allen&yearOfDeath=1948&page=11#calendar

 

Archibald, John

Aboard H.M.S. Fearless. Chaplain John Archibald, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

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Back, Hatfield Arthur William

Died HMS Vanguard 1917

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7663127

Born at Worstead Vicarage on 23rd September 1890 and educated at Norwich Grammar School and Cambridge. He enlisted 1st January 1917 and was killed by an explosion on H.M.S. Vanguard at Scapa Flow, 9th July 1917. (*Picture)

https://norfolk.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/FULL/PICNOR/BIBENQ/647097/2214566,1

 

Backwell, Henry

The 55 year old Henry Backwell, a married man born Castletown, Isle of Man, and a CofE Chaplain in the Royal Navy Hospital Service, was recorded in what appears to be married officers quarters at Haslar, Alverstoke, Gosport on the 1911 Census of England and Wales.

Chaplain and Naval Instructor Henry Blackwell, M.A. Naval Hospital Haslar September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Baker, Arthur Tennyson Britton

Aboard H.M.S. Leander and also for Torpedo Boat Destroyers. Chaplain Arthur Tennyson Britton Baker, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

Birth registered Q2 1877, Cambridge.

Biography from Alumni Cantabrigienses.

Admitted pensioner at Emmanuel, Oct. 1 1897. (S. of Henry F.). Matriculated Michaelmas 1897. B.A. 1900. Ordained deacon, 1901; priest (Exeter) 1906; Curate of East Teignmouth, Devon, 1901-03; Curate of St. Leonards-on-Sea, 1903-04. Chaplain in the Navy 1904-36. Crossed the Atlantic several times in a cruiser convoy of the American troops. Died January 22, 1936, in the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth. Brother of Alexander G, (admitted 1893)

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WPPcP39XDDIC&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=Arthur+Tennyson+Britton+Baker+Royal+Navy&source=bl&ots=UMkDqjrEDP&sig=ACfU3U1RQvU-eMv24WT8Q9IeVzRHnc122A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif0JHU76zqAhXEolwKHQGgCrQQ6AEwCnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Arthur Tennyson Britton Baker Royal Navy&f=false

The Probate Calendar gives his home address as Oak Cottage, Plymstock, Devonshire and actually records him as dieing in the Royal Naval Hospital at Devonport.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Baker&yearOfDeath=1936&page=2#calendar

 

Ball, Frederick

The 48 year old Frederick Ball, a married man born Torquay, Devon, and a Chaplain in the Royal Navy, was recorded at his home address of 7 Naval Terrace, Sheerness, Kent on the 1911 Census of England & Wales.

Page 7129 London Gazette 17 July 1917

Revd. Frederick Ball, M.A., Chaplain & Naval Instructor, R.N., placed on the Retired List at own request. 17th July 1917.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30186/page/7129/data.pdf

Chaplain and Naval Instructor  DY Sheerness, Frederick Ball, M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Beatty, John

The Reverend John Beatty, born Paw, France, aged 41 and single, was recorded as the CoE Chaplain aboard HMS Cornwallis (Commander Francis E.M. Garforth) on the night of the 1911 Census of England & Wales.

Aboard H.M.S. Carnarvon. Chaplain John Beatty,M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Bell, George Arthur Campbell

The Reverend George Arthur Campbell Bell, born Penrith, Cumberland, aged 42 and single, was recorded as the CoE Chaplain in some form of military establishment at Southampton on the night of the 1911 Census of England & Wales. It contains a mix of Troops with Indian connections, including the Royal Indian Marines, and British Army units, so it’s possible this Chaplain wasn’t serving with the Royal Navy.

 

Bird, Edward Gwynne

Edward Gwynne Bird, born Christowe near Exeter, Devon, aged 30 and single, was recorded as the Chaplain aboard HMS Bulwark (Commander Alfred A. Ellison) on the night of the 1911 Census of England & Wales. The ship was recorded in the Parish of Sheppey, Kent.

Chaplain The Reverend Edward Gwynne Bird M.A. was awarded the Insignia of Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy – his name was on a long list of Royal Naval Officers recognised by the King of Italy in recognition of valuable services rendered at the time of the earthquake in Southern Italy in 1908. Permission was given to wear the decorations in April 1912.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28599/page/2702/data.pdf

Aboard H.M.S. Hindustan. Chaplain Edward Gynne Bird, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

Biography from Alumni Cantabrigienses.

Matriculated Non-College January 29 1900 (3rd son of George Garnons, Rector of Boughton, Norfolk, born April 15 1880. Served in the South African War; enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry. Returned to Cambridge; B.A. 1902; M.A. 1920. Ordained deacon, 1903; priest (Lincoln) 1904; Curate of St Andrews, Great Grimsby, 1903-06. Joined the Missions to Seamen; spent much time with the Fishing Fleets on the Dogger Bank. Chaplain in the Navy, 1906, served in various ships, 1906-12. During the Great War, with the Fleet at Gallipoli. Chaplain at the Royal Naval Barracks, Devonport; at Portsmouth Dockyard, 1293; to the Royal Marines at Eastney, 1927-8. An active Freemason and a good sportsman. Married and had issue. Died October 28, 1928, at Eastney Barracks. Buried at sea off Portsmouth. Brother of Henry John, (admitted 1895).

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WPPcP39XDDIC&pg=PA268&lpg=PA268&dq=Edward+Gwynne+Bird++Royal+Navy&source=bl&ots=UMkDqjsFGM&sig=ACfU3U1_u5OhOc56aE6H2zY3FiuzO0QsWA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjC36nt86zqAhXyQkEAHTa3BrQQ6AEwCnoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=Edward Gwynne Bird Royal Navy&f=false

Living then at The Chaplains House, Eastney Barracks.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Bird&yearOfDeath=1928&page=2#calendar

 

Blogg, Oswald William Charles

Oswald William Charles Blogg, born St Marys, Islington, London, Devon, aged 36 and married, was recorded as the Anglican Chaplain aboard HMS Triumph (Captain Arthur William Waymouth) on the night of the 1911 Census of England & Wales.

London Gazette 4 June 1912 Page 4037.

“Chaplain The Reverend Oswald William Charles Blogg has this day been allowed to withdraw from the Royal Navy with a Gratuity.”

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28614/page/4037/data.pdf

He must have returned as his Great War medals and others were sold in 2017 by Dix Noonan Webb. The accompanying blurb states:-

Chaplain O. W. C. de Blogue, né Blogg, Royal Navy, later Royal Air Force, who whilst Chaplain to the Danubian Ports rescued a sailor from drowning in the Danube and subsequently took part in the Jubilee Celebrations of King Carol I of Romania

British War and Victory Medals (Chapn. O. W. C. Blogg. R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Romania, Kingdom, King Carol I Jubilee Medal 1906,

Oswald William Charles de Blogue, né Blogg was born in Islington, London, in 1874 and was educated at King’s College London, being ordained Deacon in 1900 and Priest in 1901. He served as Chaplain to the Danubian Ports from 1905-07, and ‘was in Rumania for three years during the riots during which I managed to prevent a sailor from being drowned in the Danube; I also took part at the Jubilee and have received a Brevet and the Jubilee Medal from Carol I King of Rumania’ (letter from the recipient to the Foreign office requesting permission to wear the Jubilee Medal refers; Blogg was given unrestricted permission to wear the medal on 2 May 1912).

 

Commissioned as a Chaplain in the Royal Navy in 1907, he served in H.M.S. Acheron from 1907-09; H.M.S. Temeraire, 1909-10; H.M.S. Invincible 1910; H.M.S. Triumph 1911; and H.M.S. Actaeon 1912. Appointed Warden of the Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham, in 1912, he served as Chaplain of Rio de Janeiro and Archdeacon in Brazil 1914-15, before serving during the Great War as a Chaplain in the Royal Naval Division 1916-17, and then as royal Navy Chaplain at Queenstown, 1917-18. Appointed Rector of Bishopstoke, Hampshire, in 1929, he served during the Second World War as a Chaplain of the Fleet Air Arm, 1940-41, and as Chaplain, Royal Air Force, 1944-45.

 

Sold together with copies of the correspondence between Blogg and the Foreign Office regarding the award and permission to wear authorisation for the Romanian Medal.

https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/special-collections/lot.php?specialcollection_id=712&lot_uid=302527

From “Chatham in the Great” by Stephen Wynn.

“At the request of the Bishop of Rochester, Archdeacon Oswald William Charles Blogg (possibly spelt Blogue or even de Blogue) returned from Brazil to take up the wardenship of Navy House at Chatham, arriving back in the country at Liverpool on 16 December 1916.”

(It then goes on to tell an anecdote about his early days as a Royal Navy Chaplain, gives details of a wife and daughter and that he died on the 15th April 1959 at a nursing home in Hampshire).

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ijOcDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT40&lpg=PT40&dq=Oswald+William+Charles+Blogg+Royal+Navy&source=bl&ots=u_KRSYvESk&sig=ACfU3U2WaanmDxc4ss1b0cIOvioAQCiF_g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwivmZHi9qzqAhVDQkEAHQbrBLUQ6AEwAXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Oswald William Charles Blogg Royal Navy&f=false

His entry in the 1959 probate calendar have entries under Blogg, Blogne and De Blogue. Details are under the last variant.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=DeBlogue&yearOfDeath=1959&page=2#calendar

 

Blundell, Adrian Weld

Roman Catholic Chaplain – see https://www.sconews.co.uk/feature/55278/fathers-in-arms/

“DomAdrian Weld-Blundell served with StBattle Squadron and was then transferred to HMSQueen 1</izabeth with the Eastern Mediterannean Fleet at the Dardanelles. He leftthe  navy  in  July  1919.”

http://www.monlib.org.uk/papers/ebch/1998hagerty.pdf

 

Blundell, Frederick Odo

Survived.

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7681318

Roman Catholic Chaplain – see https://www.sconews.co.uk/feature/55278/fathers-in-arms/

“In  October  1914,  from  the  hospital  ship  Rohilia,Dom  Ododescribed the difficulty of ministering to forty or fifty ships which call into harbour,take on coal and then leave. In such a situation there was no opportunity for the priestto visit the ships or for individual confessions. However, his work was not entirelyfruitless for in the following month, from HMS Colossus in the I ~ Battle Squadron,Dom Odo reported that 1,500 men had received Holy Communion after individualconfussions.”

http://www.monlib.org.uk/papers/ebch/1998hagerty.pdf

Frederick died on the 6th February 1943. A contemporary obituary states that during the war of 1914-19 he was a chaplain with the Grand Fleet, and served with the present King in H.M.S. Collingwood.

https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/94-9-Obituaries.pdf

He was also the author of “The Catholic Highlands of Scotland”.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catholic-Highlands-Scotland-1/dp/0342716581

And others,

http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-89227664/

 

Bode, John Ernest Victor

Aboard H.M.S. Africa. Chaplain John Ernest Victor Bode, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

The birth of a John Ernest V. Bode was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Shipston on Stour District of Warwickshire in Q3 1887. On his death record his date of birth is given as the 6th August 1887.

The 1972 Probate Calendar records that the Reverend John Ernest Victor Bode of The Bent, Wells Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, died on the 21st June 1972.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar#calendar

 

Bray, Edward Martin

Roman Catholic Chaplain The Reverend Father Edward Martin Bray was awarded the Insignia of Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy – his name was on a long list of Royal Naval Officers recognised by the King of Italy in recognition of valuable services rendered at the time of the earthquake in Southern Italy in 1908. Permission was given to wear the decorations in April 1912.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28599/page/2702/data.pdf

 

Bredin, Edward Robert

Aboard H.M.S. Warrior. Chaplain Edward Robert Bredin, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

He was placed on the Retired List on the 11th December 1919. (Page 836. London Gazette, 20 January 1920).

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31743/page/836/data.pdf

The Imperial War Museum may well have a picture of him tbut hey have him as Naval Chaplain E.R. Bredin, H.M.S. Bonaventure. The IWM have added it to their flick account and there are a number of comments giving additional biographical details.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/imperialwarmuseum/9722832169

He gets a mention in “Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History” by L. Phillips in connection with the sinking of H.M.S. Warrior.

“At 9 p.m. the Warrior was taken in tow by the seaplane carrier HMS Engadine. By dawn it was clear the cruiser was sinking and Engadine came alongside and, in a difficult operation with a sea running, took off the ship’s company. ‘We cut adrift from the old Warrior,’ wrote Flight Commander Graham Donald, one of the seaplane pilots in HMS Engadine, ‘and saluted her as she disappeared astern of us, with her funnels hanging over the side, her 91/5in guns pointing skywards, and her White Ensign gallantly fluttering in the morning sun.’

Just before the two ships parted, the ship’s padre, the Rev. Edward Robert Bredin, ran below to his wrecked cabin and rescued a three-piece silver communion set, which the Admiralty subsequently allowed him to retain. He presented the holy vessels to the next ship of the name in the Royal Navy, the aircraft carrier HMS Warrior, and they were later passed on to the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief Fleet at Northwood in Middlesex, which has been commissioned as HMS Warrior.”

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sQSTAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT369&lpg=PT369&dq=Edward+Robert+Bredin+Royal+Navy&source=bl&ots=nkfX0_4i8n&sig=ACfU3U0rsXrh3lt93k7QscwptoCYnQU37Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjetLqC_6zqAhWRTsAKHdluD7QQ6AEwC3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Edward Robert Bredin Royal Navy&f=false

 

Briggs, William Arthur

St Johns College, Cambridge has the Rev W.A. Briggs, Chaplain RN who was serving aboard H.M.S Erin according to their War Lists. A later entry has him with H.M.S. Euryalus.

https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle Chapters/War Lists/War_Lists_1910s.pdf

Aboard H.M.S. Erin. Acting Chaplain for Temporary Service William Arthur Briggs, M.A.

Seniority 19 August 1914 from September 1914 Monthly Navy List

He was confirmed in his rank as a Chaplain effective 19th August 1914 on Page 1264, London Gazette dated 30 January 1920.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31761/page/1264/data.pdf

(That probably indicates he stayed on in the post war Navy).

 

Brooks, Dallas George

Chaplain of the Royal Hospital School, Greenwich. Seniority 30th April 1898

September 1914 Monthly Navy List

Possibly the father of General Sir Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks – a Royal Marine whose service in the Great War included Gallipoli and the Zeebrugge Raid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Brooks

On the 1911 Census of England & Wales the 47 year old Dallas George Brooks, born Bombay, India, and a Clergyman of the Established Church employed by the Royal Navy, was recorded as the married head of the household at 85 North Denes Road, Great Yarmouth. He lives there with his wife of 19 years, Violet Ruth Brooks, born London. So far the couple have had four children, all then still alive. Dallas has initially completed the census return showing all four living with them, but then details for one of the children has been crossed through. That child was the 14 year old Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks, born Cambridge.

The death of the 86 year old Dallas G. Brooks was recorded in the Hammersmith District of London in Q2 1950.

The 1950 Probate Calendar confirms he died on the 12th May 1950.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Brooks&yearOfDeath=1950&page=3#calendar

 

Browning, Guy Arnott

Died HMS Indefatigable 1916

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7663128

The Revd. Guy A. Browning, born Wimbledon, London, aged 34 and single, was recorded as the Chaplain aboard HMS Vanguard (Captain John B. Eustace) on the night of the 1911 Census of England & Wales. The ship was recorded in the Parish of Portland, Dorset.

St Johns College, Cambridge has the Rev. G.A. Browning serving aboard HMS Orion on their War List.

https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle Chapters/War Lists/War_Lists_1910s.pdf

Aboard H.M.S. Orion. Chaplain and Naval Instructor Guy Arrott Browning, M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Burkitt, Francis Hassard

Aboard H.M.S. Superb. Chaplain Francis Hassard Burkitt, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

Apparently there were three generations of clergyman from Ireland who all had the same name.

https://irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-database/francis-hassard-burkitt

I suspect this is the relevant headstone from the churchyard of St James’s. Stradbally.

https://historicgraves.com/stjames-s-stradbally-anglican-c-i/wa-stbl-060/grave

 

Cheers,

Peter

 

[seaJane]

Definitely grew, Peter.

Thank you!

Jane

[michaeldr]

SJ

 

There are two interesting chapters on the Navy's RC priests in The Cross on the Sword by Tom Johnstone & James Hagerty

Catholic naval chaplains ashore 1733-1918 page 46>

Catholic naval chaplains with the Fleet 1914-1918 page 59>

 

edit to add: "During World War I, 40 Catholic chaplains served in the Royal Navy. One chaplain died on active service."

edit to correct - This latter is a ref to Fr Stewart Phelan who died when HMS Black Prince was sunk 

Also died in service: Canon Robert Basil Gwydir OSB of Douai Abbey & St. David's Priory, Swansea, who went down with the Home Fleet Hospital Ship Rohilla on 30th October 1914

Edited 3 July , 2020 by michaeldr

[seaJane]

Thank you Michael. Much obliged.

[PRC]

C.

 

Carey, Walter Julius

Reverend Walter Carey, H.M.S. Warspite.

“In his auto biography, Carey related how he had joined the a navy at midday and was sent to his first ship by the evening. This was the HMS Mars which had be assigned to the home fleet as a guardship in the Humber, off Grimsby Carey referred to her as “the old death trap,” (Photo) Later described as Anglican chaplain on the Warspite at Jutland, (there was also a Roman Catholic chaplain, Father John Pollen – the incident in which they both rescued men from a blown up turret is reported in the same source).

http://www.linda-parker.co.uk/naval-chaplains-in-the-first-world-war/

Aboard H.M.S. Mars. Acting Chaplain for Temporary Service Walter Julius Carey, M.A.

Seniority 11 August 1914 from September 1914 Monthly Navy List

Wiki page including picture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Carey

 

Carr, Richard,

Roman Catholic Chaplain.

http://www.linda-parker.co.uk/naval-chaplains-in-the-first-world-war/

 

Carter, Arthur Arnold

The 41 year old Arthur Arnold Carter, a married man born Oxford, Oxfordshire, and a Chaplain in the Royal Navy, was recorded at his home address of 28 Lowcay Road Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire on the 1911 Census of England & Wales.

DY NH (Gibraltar). Chaplain Arthur Arnold Carter, M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

The birth of an Arthur Arnold Carter, mothers’ maiden name Carter, was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Headington District of Oxfordshire in Q4 1869.

 

Carter, Fitzwilliam

The four ships at the Fishgard establishment. Acting Chaplain for Temporary Service Fitzwilliam Carter, M.A.

Seniority 13 August 1914 from September 1914 Monthly Navy List

The birth of a Fitzwilliam Carter was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Stoke on Trent District of Staffordshire in Q2 1873.

The death of an 81 year old Fitzwilliam Carter was recorded in the Tiverton District of Devon in Q4 1954.

The 1954 Probate Calendar records that the Reverend Fitzwilliam Carter of Alexander Lodge, Tiverton, Devonshire died on the 23rd October 1954 at Post Hill Hospital Tiverton.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Carter&yearOfDeath=1954&page=6#calendar

 

Caspersz, Thomas Wilfred Liddle

Aboard H.M.S. Antrim. Chaplain Thomas Wilfred Liddle Caspersz, M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

Lives of the First World War has him as graduate of Wadham College, Oxford. The Sea Chapains by Gordon Taylor is also quoted as having him aboard H.M.S. Revenge.

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7690384

The birth of a Thomas Wilfred L Casperz was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Hampstead District of London in Q2 1876.

On the 1891 Census, aged 14, he was recorded living at Clevedon, Meadfoot Road, Todmorham, Torquay, Devon. This was the household of his married mother Rachel C, (aged 58, born Bengal, East India). Also in the household are his older unmarried sister, Ann R., (aged 39, born Bengal, East India) and his married brother Charles, (35, Indian Civil Service, Judicial Branch, Joint Magistrate 1st grade J.P.) plus wife and two daughter. There are also four live in servants.

After that the family seem to pretty much disappear from the records for England & Wales. A 90 year old Rachel E dies in the Newton Abbott district of Devon in Q3 1922 and was possibly buried in Berkshire. No obvious civil probate.

In 1893 a T W Caspersz applied for a British passport, but the source I have access to has nothing more than that.

 

Chappell, William Henry

The Reverend William Henry Chappell, born Tavistock, Devon, aged 41 and single, was recorded as the CoE Chaplain aboard HMS Duke of Edinburgh (Captain the Hon. Robert Francis Boyle), 5th Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic Fleet on the night of the 1911 Census of England & Wales.

Aboard H.M.S. Argyll. Chaplain William Henry Chappell,M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

The birth of a William Henry Chappell, mothers’ maiden name Harvey, was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Tavistock District of Devon in Q1 of 1870.

On the 1871 Census of England & Wales, parents are shown as Joseph G W, a Schoolmaster, and Emma. The family were living at Spring Hill House, Tavistock. The Chappells have five students boarding with them. William Henrys’ older sister Jessie is shown as born Australia.

 

Chatterton, John Stanislaus

“Dom  StanislausChatterton of Downside entered service in 1915, served in H.MS. Ajax with the BattleSquadrons at Scapa Flow, with the hospital ship Drina 3, and left the navy in 1919. FrStanislaus  was  Chaplain  to  HAtS  Hampshire  which  carried  Field  Marshal  LordKithchener on his last fatal, voyage in June 1916 but failed to get back to the ship from leave before she sailed.”

http://www.monlib.org.uk/papers/ebch/1998hagerty.pdf

Page 132 “Rum, Sodomy, Prayers, and the Lash Revisited: Winston Churchill and Social Reform in the Royal Navy, 1900-1915”  by Matthew S. Seligmann.

“The names were sought of Catholic Priests available for embarkation at short notice in the battle squadrons of the Home Fleets, should this be required. It was, however, stipulated that these priests would not be appointed as chaplains and that they should not ‘hold services of a public character on Board His Majesty’s Ships’. The names of four, subsequently five, available Catholic priests were duly supplied to the Admiralty and Treasury sanction for their employment was obtained on 29 August. At least one of these priests, the Reverend Frederick Odo Blundell, had begun his ministrations prior to that date. The others took up their positions thereafter, Father John Stanislaus Chatterton for example, embarking on the hospital ship HMS Soudan in September.”

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dftdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=Stanislaus+Chatterton+Royal+Navy&source=bl&ots=2Fesmggyfo&sig=ACfU3U0K7o1ZTRbDAawDvsD5HkeTy4MTMw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB7NP-k6_qAhUFY8AKHdyeAq4Q6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Stanislaus Chatterton Royal Navy&f=false

A Stanislaus Chatterton was Prior at Ealing Abbey from 1938 to 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealing_Abbey

https://ealingmonks.org.uk/contact/the-monks/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001258063905700201?journalCode=tdra

A Google search return says this webpage contains a picture of Prior Chatterton inspecting bomb damage at the Abbey. There is indeed a picture but on the website as it appeared on the 2nd July 2020 the picture is not captioned or referenced in the text.

https://parish.rcdow.org.uk/ealingabbey/about-the-parish/

There is another picture of him in a publication from Downside Abbey about the Chaplains provided in the Great War.

https://www.downside.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014-Diary.pdf

Find a Grave has him buried at Downside Abbey and adds:-

Birth: 26 Oct 1882

Death: 8 Jun 1967 (aged 84)

Clothed: 3 Sep 1901 at Belmont

Professed: 4 Sep 1902

Sol.Prof: 8 Oct 1905

Ordained: 20 Sep 1908

Father: Bollin Chatterton

Mother: Caroline McGee

Educ: Downside

Missions: – Coventry O 1909-14 – Liverpool M 1918 – Swansea J – Hindley 1925 – Liverpool M 1926-34 – Bungay1934-38 – Liverpool M 1938-39 – Ealing 1939-45 – Bungay 1945-61.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182639946

 

Clarke, Sidney Lampard

The 40 year old Sidney L Clarke, born Derby, a married ‘Chaplain and Nav. Instructor” was recorded aboard HMS Indefatigable, (Captain Arthur C. Leveson), on the night of the 1911 Census of England & Wales.

Aboard H.M.S. Collingwood. Chaplain and Naval Instructor Sidney Lampard Clarke,M.A., B.S.C. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

Wiki Page has him born 15th January 1871, transferred to the RAF Chaplaincy service in 1918, became an Honorary Chaplain to the King and died 13th November 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Clarke_(priest)

The London Gazette dated 2 September 1921 saw him granted the “relative rank of Group Capt., for the purposes of precedence, administration and discipline.”

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32444/page/6946/data.pdf

He relinquished his appointments as Chaplain-in-Chief of the RAF and Honorary Chaplain to the King on the 11th December 1933.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34004/page/8052/data.pdf

The birth of Sidney Lampard Clarke was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Derby District in Q1 1871.

On the 1871 Census of England & Wales the 2 month old Sidney L. Clarke, born Derby, was recorded living at 39 Normanton Road, Derby. This was the household of his parents Edward, a Commercial Traveller (Stationary) and Susanna. The couple had four other children living with them.

He married Emma Caroline Weir at Horncastle, Lincolnshire on the 15th April 1906.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP71-STB5

The death of the 74 year old Sidney L. Clarke was recorded at Horncastle in Q4 of 1945.

The 1946 Probate Calendar records that the Reverend Sidney Lampard Clarke of The Bull Hotel, Horncastle, died on the 24th November 1945 – so at odds with the Wikipedia page.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Clarke&yearOfDeath=1946&page=16#calendar

 

Clements, William Dudley

Aboard H.M.S. Essex. Chaplain William Dudley Clements, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List.

From “The Living Church. Volume 105. Page 8 December 13, 1942”

“The Rev. Dom Bernard Clents, OSB, vicar of All Saints, Margaret Street, London, who died on September 13th, leaves many monuments to his tireless work for God and for human souls.

Born William Dudley Clements in 1882 near Osborne, Isle of Wight, he studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. Against strong parental opposition he decided to take Holy Orders, and was ordained priest in 1909, taking his title as curate under Fr. Aidan Hancock, at St. Peter’s, Muswell Hill.

Shortly before the beginning of the first world war he became Chaplain in the Royal Navy, serving on HMS Essex and HMS Colossus. So successful was he in this duty that he was advanced to the Chaplaincy of the Royal Training Ship Mercury, where he remained until after the conclusion of the war. He then moved to the vicarate of the Church of St. Michael and All Angels, at Portsmouth. His parish house and vicarage became the regular port-of-call for sailors on shore leave and for the dock workers of Portsmouth. It was under Dom Bernard that this parish acquired that reputation among the sailors and shipping men as a place of heartiest welcome that it has ever since enjoyed.

However there existed in the heart of the young vicar the conviction that our Lord wished him to leave all for the love of Christ. So he sought and found entrance to the Benedictine community, in the pioneer stages, at Pershore. There he was professed in 1921. In 1923 he was appointed prior of the community. When the order decided to inaugurate mission work on the Gold Coast of Africa, Dom Bernard was sent out as the first prior. By the Bishop of Accra he was also commissioned to set up the work of St. Augustine’s College for the training of native clergy. Perhaps, of all the works which Dom Bernard carried out so successfully in his full life, this was the one nearest to his heart, and that which he considered his greatest achievement.

In 1928 he was recalled to the home Abbey, and from then until 1934 he garnered fresh praise and recognition for himself and for the order, as a director of souls, retreat conductor, and preacher. It was no surprise therefore that the Bishop of London, in whose gift was All Saints Church, Margaret Street, entreated the community for the loan of Dom Bernard to become vicar of that important parish, in succession to Father Mackay. The community reluctantly relinquished him for a period of five years, which was subsequently extended another five years. As vicar Dom Bernard accomplished the work of reorganization and entrenchment in the changing times. He became a regular preacher for the British Broadcasting Corporation, and was in its inner council of advisers on policy and morale.

Among his published works were: Philip cometh to Andrew, Members of Christ, The Royal Banners, The Precepts of the Church, When Ye Pray and Learning to be a Christian.

Dom Bernard made few enemies and never lost a friend. He maintained contact with his students from Kumasi, his “boys” (many of them later high-ranking officers), of the Royal Navy. As preacher, writer and director of souls, he had the gift of simple utterance, enforcing his teaching by homely and trenchant illustration. A man large in size, he was equally large in heart and mind. His public ministry was outstanding; his inner life more than equalled it. A great priest, who in his days pleased God.”

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QHLkAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA24-PA8&lpg=RA24-PA8&dq=William+Dudley+Clements+Royal+Navy&source=bl&ots=lyPpnPE6ZG&sig=ACfU3U12ihdfWk8EcX1IFeTcApi4KmPgng&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjj5770oK_qAhWDi1wKHYdyCqwQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=William Dudley Clements Royal Navy&f=false

 A slightly different biography of him appears in “The Dambuster who Cracked the Dam: The Story of Melvin ‘Dinghy’ Young” by Arthur G. Thorning– it looks like the Reverend Clements reawakened the Catholic Faith in the young Melvin Young.

“William Dudley Clements (1880-1942) was vicar at All Saints from 1934 until his death from appendicitis in 1942. He was a big man, both physically – well over six feet tall and weighing over 20 stones, 280lbs – and in personality; in his earlier years he was, by his own admission, forthright and sometimes irascible. Educated at Pembroke College , Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin, he worked for a few years as a school teacher before ordination as a priest in the Church of England in 1909. In 1911 he became a chaplain in the Royal Navy, and harangued the Admiralty to encourage more active religious observance by the sailors; the admirals were unmoved. After a period as chaplain of a training ship and as vicar at Portsea, in 1921 he took monastic vows, adopting the name Bernard, and joined the small Benedictine house at Pershore.” (There is more on his later life at the same source)

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IgXMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT91&lpg=PT91&dq=William+Dudley+Clements+Royal+Navy&source=bl&ots=sdaXxZyS3c&sig=ACfU3U0RAQmE_jVfLSfRtVg54IIAC-WJrg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjj5770oK_qAhWDi1wKHYdyCqwQ6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=William Dudley Clements Royal Navy&f=false

 

Collier, George Henry

Aboard H.M.S. Cressy. Acting Chaplain for Temporary Service George Henry Collier, B.A.

Seniority 12 August 1914 from September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Cowan, Charles Emilius Lowther

Aboard 524 (Should be H.M.S. Vivid but could not find him listed). Chaplain Charles Emilius Lowther Cowan, M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

The death of the 79 year old Charles E L Cowan was registered in the Kensington District of London in Q1 of 1950.

The 1950 Probate Celendar records that the Reverend Charles Emilius Lowther Cowan of 8a Glenhow Gardens, South Kensington, London S.W.5, died on the 10th March 1950. There appears to be no surviving family as the estate went to the Public Trustees.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar#calendar

In 1938 Charles and his wife Annie Dorothea Cowan were executors of the estate of an Amelia Annie York.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar#calendar

 

Creed, Algernon Henry George

Died HMS Orvieto 1917.

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7663130

Stained Glass Window

https://www.flickr.com/photos/trena-cox/44865986431/in/photolist-28AzvPj-2bmDUEc-28AzvGL-2bmDUNi

Close up of dedication.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/trena-cox/44865986901/in/photolist-28AzvPj-2bmDUEc-28AzvGL-2bmDUNi

 

Crick, Thomas

HMS Malaya – survived.

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7681330

Aboard H.M.S. King Edward VII. Chaplain Thomas Crick, M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

Possible. A 26 year old Thomas Crick, single and a Church of England Clerk in Holy Orders, born Chadburn, Lancashire, was recorded as one of four joint occupiers – all clergymen – who were resident at The Clergy House. 9 New Market Street, Wigan, Lancashire at the time of the 1911 Census of England & Wales.

The Supplement to the London Gazette dated 1 February 1937 records that The Reverend Thomas Crick, M.V.O., M.A., K.H.Ch., R.N., was to be a Commander in the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34365/supplement/694/data.pdf

By the time of the edition dated Tuesday 19 March 1940 he was already Chaplain to the Fleet and would be a Chaplain to His Majesty, the incumbent having deceased.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34814/page/1629/data.pdf

Very brief Wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crick

The death of a Thomas Crick born 17th March 1885 was recorded in the Surrey North Wester District on Q4 1970.

The 1971 Probate Calendar records that The Very Reverend Thomas Crick, of 10 Queens Keep, Upper Park Road, Camberley, Surrey, clerk in Holy Orders died on the 13th November 1970.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Crick&yearOfDeath=1971&page=1#calendar

 

Crole-Rees, Herbert Stanley

Herbert S. Crole Rees, born Acton, Middlesex, aged 29 and single, was recorded as the Chaplain aboard HMS Kent (Captain Stuart St. John Farquhar) on the night of the 1911 Census of England & Wales. The ship location was given as China Sea, Latitude 31.45S, Longitude 71.55 W.

St Johns College, Cambridge has the Rev. H.S. Crole-Rees serving aboard HMS Victorious on their War List. On a later page it has him aboard H.M.S. Australia and then H.M.S. Hercules and then H.M.S. Impregnable.

https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle Chapters/War Lists/War_Lists_1910s.pdf

Aboard H.M.S. Victorious. Chaplain Herbert Stanley Crole-Rees, M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

The birth of Herbert Stanley Crole-Rees was recorded in the Fulham District of London in Q3 of 1881.

On the 17th April 1923 at the age of 41 the bachelor Herbert Stanley Crole Rees, Chaplain Royal Navy married the 31 year old Charlotte Kathleen Payne at St Pauls, Durban, Natal, South Africa.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDCB-GX1

On the 14th June 1923 he and Charlotte landed at Ellis Island, New York on the S.S. Homeric from Southampton. Travelling on Diplomatic Passports they were in transit, with a final destination of Hong Kong.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JNXX-Q3X

Herbert would die on the 15th August 1956 at the Volks Hospital, Cape Town and would be survived by Charlotte. He was buried at the Plumstead Cemetery, Cape Province, on the 17th.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HTFY-5RZM

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHB-P69N

 

Cruce, Frederick George Landin

H.M.S. Pembroke Royal Naval Barracks. Acting Chaplain for Temporary Service Frederick George Landin Cruce,

Seniority 8 August 1914 from September 1914 Monthly Navy List

The birth of a Frederick George L Cruce was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Hendon District of Middlesex.

On the 1911 Census of England & Wales the 31 year old Frederick George Landin Cruce, an unmarried Oxford undergraduate, born London, was recorded as a visitor in a household at Southsea.

In Q3 1913 he married an Ellen L N Duncan.

A collection of pictures taken by him are held by the Imperial War Museum.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205007447

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205225664

His address was given as 15 Namu Road, Bournemouth, his occupation was given as Clerk in Holy Orders, and his date of death as the 21st October 1967 when claims were invited on his estate in the London Gazette. (There is no additional information in the probate calendar)

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/44453/page/12572/data.pdf

The death of the 88 year old Frederick G L Cruce was recorded in the Bournemouth District of Dorset in Q4 1967. (The sites I use for looks have incorrectly transcribed the age as 68 but checking the scan of the original document I can see the two number "8"'s have been merged. The younger age would not tie in with the other civil records).

 

To be continued....

 

 

 

 

Edited 2 July , 2020 by PRC
Typo

[michaeldr]

Some gleanings from Johnstone & Hagerty's book

 

Dom Frederick Odo Weld-Blundell, OSB [ref 1^st Battle Squadron, HMS Colossus 13 Nov 1914]

Fr Alfred Adrian Weld-Blundell, OSB [ref 2^nd Battle-Cruiser Squadron until beginning 1915, & later transferred to Eastern Med]

Fr Thomas Bradley [replaced the above 15 Feb 1915 on HMS New Zealand]

Fr Patrick Gibbons RAN [HMAS Australia (interesting, this chaplain held a commission in the Australian Navy at a time when British RC chaplains were not commissioned) Also at Jutland]

Fr Charles Ritchie, CongOrat [also Eastern Med]

Fr Eric Green [att. RND]

Fr Alfred Barry, OSFC [Eastern Med]

Fr Stephen Thompson [att RND]

Fr Thomas Bradley [HMS Tiger – Jutland]

Fr William Driscoll [HMS Natal – Jutland]

Fr Anthony Pollen [HMS Warspite – Jutland, where he was badly burned whilst saving two men from a cordite fire. Put forward for a DSO, he received the DSC, as RC chaplains at that time were not commissioned]

Fr Stewart Pollen [died when HMS Black Prince went down]

Fr James O'Reilly [previously in the Med, latterly at Scapa, received the OBE at the end of the war]

Fr W. I Meagher [witnessed HMS Vanguard blow up]

Fr Stewart Thornton [won the DSO with the 63(RN)Div at Beaucourt – (RND was then under the WO and so his DSO was allowed – see Anthony Pollen above)]

Fr John MacNeil [served first in army with Camerons, then transferred to navy in March 1918 and subsequently on HMS Bellerophon]

 

Stats: Catholic Naval Chaplains at August 1914 – 4

appointed in 1914 – 8 [2 to the RND]

appointed in 1915 – 17

appointed in 1916 - 3

appointed in 1917 – nil

appointed in 1918 – 8

at end of the war, 31 were serving with the fleet

 

On 2^nd August 1918 with Wemyss as FSL and Beatty I/c the Grand Fleet, RC chaplains become 'Acting R. C. Chaplains'

Then in 1921 they were for the first time gazetted as Temporary Chaplains

And on 17th November 1943 they became full R. C. Chaplains R. N.

 

I hope that this is of some help

Michael

[TullochArd]

There are 107 entries under "Chaplain" filter applied "Royal Navy" on IWM LIves at

 

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/searchlives/chaplain/filter/service%3DRoyal%2BNavy

 

Clearly there will be the odd one or two to weed out but, as it is based on MIC entries, it's a good first sweep.

 

Regards

 

Ian

[PRC]

D.

 

Dalzell, Henry

Aboard H.M.S. Indefatigable. Chaplain and Naval Instructor Henry Dalzell, M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Dathan, Joseph Duncan

Died HMS Pembroke 1918

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7663131

Aboard H.M.S. Implacable. Chaplain Joseph Duncan Dathan, M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Dauglish, John

Shotley Traing Establishment. Chaplain John Dauglish,M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

During the Great War,Dauglish served at Shotley Barracks where he was regarded as 'most zealous and conscientious 'and,from July,1918,on HMS Queen Elizabeth on which he witnessed the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet and conducted the service of thanksgiving

From his Wiki page, which also has him Born 19 October 1879 and educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and St John's College, Oxford. Post Navy he became Bishop of Nassau. Died 1st November 1952.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dauglish

There is a picture of him as the Bishop of Nassau here:-

https://www.bahtcianglican.org/The-Story-of-Addington-House

However the Imperial War Museum  has the following item, which may call into question that he only saw service at Shotley and on HMS Elizabeth.

“Album of photographs of naval interest relating to the service of the Reverend John Dauglish as a naval chaplain during the First World War. Many of the photographs cover the RNAS station on Imbros the aircraft types including Short Seaplanes, Bristol Scout, BE2C, Nieuport 11, Morane Parasol. There are also photographs of the British and French military cemeteries at Mudros. Portraits of British and French warships also feature in the collection including the battleships HMS AGAMEMNON, HMS CORNWALLIS, REPUBLIQUE and PATRIE; the seaplane carrier HMS EMPRESS, the cruisers HMS ST GEORGE and HMS FORESIGHT; the destroyers HMS BULLDOG (including a sequence showing damage caused by a min off Cape Helles in 1916) and???, the monitors HMS ABERCROMBIE and M.30; the submarine E.7 and auxiliaries RFA RELIANCE, SS ORTOLAN, the tug FLYING MIST and a Floating Dock. There is also an interesting photograph showing a tug towing a barge full of French horses. Scenes taken at the airship stations at Mudros and Cape Kassandra are also amongst the images in the album as are those showing civilian life on Lemnos. A small number of individuals are named in the album: Lieutenants Brisley and Duff, Dr Wolferstein and Pat O'Mara. Finally, there is a single photograph taken in the trenches at ANZAC showing an Australian infantryman looking across No-Man's-Land using a trench periscope. The collection also includes an interesting loose print showing the view from the periscope of submarine E.11 in Constantinople harbour on 13 December 1915, taken by Lieutenant-Commander Martin Eric Nasmith VC. Accompanying the photograph is a covering letter from Nasmith to Dauglish dated 1 May 1920. There is also an earlier short letter from Nasmith dated 23 June 1915 thanks Dauglish for an earlier letter. A second loose print with accompanying documentation is a Central News print showing Dauglish heading a service of thanksgiving aboard HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH at 6pm on 21 November 1918, on the occasion of the handing over of the German High Seas Fleet. The documentation consists of a Naval Signal sheet stating the intention of Admiral Beatty to hold the service along with a printed service sheet. Finally, the collection also includes two pre-1914 prints mounted on a single loose album page. The first of these shows the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and his staff (Sir Francis Hopwood, Sir Arthur Bigge, Engineer Commander Ayers, Commodore King-Hall, Lord Annaly, Captain Godfrey Lanssett) after a shift as stokers onboard HMS INDOMITABLE during the ships' record breaking return voyage from India in August 1908. The second print is a formal group photograph of the officers of HMS INDOMITABLE in 1908.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205003049

(Of course doesn’t necessarily mean he was in the Med – a friend or friends may have sent him pictures)

The birth of a John Dauglish was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Kingston District of Surrey in Q4 1879.

The baptism of a John Dauglish, no date of birth transcribed, took place at Wimbledon, Surrey on the 25th November 1879. His parents were Algernon and Rebecca Collett Dauglish.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGQG-MN3B

On the 1901 Census of England & Wales he was recorded as born Wimbledon and a live-in Assistant Schoolmaster at the Royal Masonic School, a boarding School for boys, at Lordship Lane, Wood Green, North London.

On the sources I have access to he has been transcribed as John ‘Danglish’ on the 1911 Census of England & Wales. Aged 31 and from Wimbledon, he was still unmarried. His occupation is shown as ‘Chaplain – Miscellaneous’ and he was then serving aboard HMS Indomitable (Captain Lewis Bayly) which was recorded in the Medway District of Kent.

During his time as Bishop of Nassau there are records of trips to the USA.

In November 1933, then aged 54, he was recorded as 5 feet 9 and a half inches tall, with a fair complexion, brown hair and blue eyes. He had no distinguishing marks. He was then single.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YV-4GMJ

Still single when he next visited in 1936, he gave his next of kin as a Mrs R.C. Dauglish, of Addington House, Nassau – which was the Bishops Palace.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YV-4G8N

The death of the 73 year old John Dauglish was recorded in the Hastings District of Sussex in Q4 of 1952.

The 1952 Probate Calendar records that The Right Reverend John Dauglish of 10 Cloudesley Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea died on the 1st November 1952 at Hastings.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar#calendar

 

Davies, John Watkin

The 46 year old John Watkin Davies, a married man born Painswick, Gloucestershire, was recorded at his home address of 138 Victoria Road North, Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire on the 1911 Census of England & Wales. He gives his occupation as “Congregational Minister And Chaplain To H M Forces Army And Navy”. He lives there with his wife of 20 years  Anne Elizabeth, and two of their four children – Alice Sear (15) and John Rodyn, (8) – both born Southsea.

He was minister of Edinburgh Road Congregational Church in Portsmouth according to several sources that need to be downloaded.

The birth of a John Watkin Davies, mothers’ maiden name Anwyl, was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire in Q1 1865.

 

Dawson, Edward Courtenay

Aboard H.M.S. Jupiter. Acting Chaplain for Temporary Service Edward Courtenay Dawson, B.A.

Seniority 19 August 1914 from September 1914 Monthly Navy List

The birth of an Edward Courtenay Dawson, mothers’ maiden name Archbutt, was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Woolwich District of London in Q1 1889.

The 22 year old Edward Courtenay Dawson, born Plumstead, Kent and an unmarried Cambridge Undergraduate, was recorded on the 1911 Census of England & Wales at 31 Kings Gardens, West End Lane, Kilburn, N.W. London. This was the household of his parents William George and Florence Dawson – both shown as living on private means. Three of his seven siblings were also still at home including an older sister who is shown as a B.A.

No obvious entry for him in Alumni Cantabrigienses.

 

Dawson, Henry Patrick.

The 49 year old Henry P. Dawson, a married Royal Navy Chaplain, born Dublin, was recorded as the married head of the household at 1 Hamilton Terrace, 25 Dainford Street, East Stonehouse, Devon. He lives there with his wife of 19 years, Gertrude A., (aged 53, born Brighton, Sussex). The couple have had two children but neither was with them on the night of the census – instead they share the house with two servants.

Chaplain Aboard H.M.H.S. Soudan. Henry Patrick Dawson M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List.

The death of the 70 year old Henry P Dawson was registered in the Hastings District of Sussex in Q3 1933.

The 1933 Probate Calendar records that The Reverend Henry Patrick Dawson of Penang, Markwick Gardens, St. Leonards on Sea died on the 20th September 1933. Probate was granted to Patrick Frank Majendie Dawson, Lieutenant Commander, R.N.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Dawson&yearOfDeath=1933&page=2#calendar

 

De Jersey, Norman Stewart

Aboard H.M.S. Albion. Acting Chaplain for Temporary Service Norman Stewart De Jersey, M.A.

(Hon. Chaplain R.N.V.R) Seniority August 1914 from September 1914 Monthly Navy List

From his Wiki Page

The Right Rev. Norman Stewart de Jersey, MA, DD, VD (1866- 1934) was an Anglican priest: the Bishop of the Falkland Islands from 1919 to 1934.

He was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey; Marlborough and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1891, he served curacies at St Michael's, Bristol and St Mary's, Kilburn. He was the Chaplain to BTS Formidable and Nautical School, Portishead from 1898 to 1907; to HMS Albion to 1914 and the 10th Cruiser Squadron to 1918: concurrently he was Senior Chaplain to the Missions to Seamen for Bristol, Avonmouth, and the Channel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_de_Jersey

Picture and fuller bio here:-

https://www.falklandsbiographies.org/biographies/264

Above source states “He died, unmarried, at the age of 68, on 28 November 1934, having only just retired.”

On the 1911 Census of England & Wales the 45 year old unmarried Norman Stewart de Jersey, a Clergyman of the established church, born Guernsey, was recorded as the head of the household at 47 Queens Square, Bristol.

On the 1935 Probate Calendar the right reverend Norman Stewart de Guernsey, of the island of Guernsey, died at the Chesterfield Nursing Home, Clifton, Bristol, on the 28th November 1934.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=DeJersey&yearOfDeath=1935&page=3#calendar

“The Royal Navy Roll of Honour – Between the Wars, 1918-1939” by Don Kindell lists him as having died of illness and still a Chaplain with the R.N.V.R.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=w_6LAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA211&lpg=PA211&dq=Norman+Stewart+De+Jersey+Royal+Navy&source=bl&ots=XhXzRnACd1&sig=ACfU3U0FEruitOCAkly6_m8nXiXMKSaS5Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDjL_BzLPqAhW4TBUIHey7BD4Q6AEwDHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Norman Stewart De Jersey Royal Navy&f=false

 

De Vitre, John Durham Denis

The 40 year old Reverend John de Vitre, a single man with birthplace unknown was recorded as the Royal Naval Chaplain at Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk on the 1911 Census of England & Wales.

The Reverend John Durham De Vitre was appointed Chaplain to Her Majesty’s Fleet, 22nd April 1898.

(Page 2747 London Gazette May 3 1898)

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26963/page/2747/data.pdf

Deceased 1st May 1951 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Great Yarmouth. Executors’ notice in the London Gazette.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39263/page/3403/data.pdf

Aboard H.M.S. Canopus. Chaplain John Durham Denis De Vitre, M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

Items held by the Royal Museums Greenwich

https://collections.rmg.co.uk/archive/objects/499020.html

De Vitre, a naval chaplain who joined the service in 1898, served in the Mediterranean before the First World War and in the Canopus in the Dardanelles. He later retired to a parish in Berkshire.

https://aim25.com/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=17722&inst_id=126&nv1=search&nv2=

He also donated materials to the Pitt Rivers Museum which notes him as a “Field Collector.

http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/sma/index.php/people-database/17-people-tables/454-d.html

http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/sma/index.php/primary-documents/primary-documents-pitt-rivers-museum.html

 

Dixon-Wright, Henry (Dixon)

On the 1911 Census of England & Wakes the 40 year old Henry Dixon Wright, a Clergyman of the Established Church and a Royal Navy Chaplain, born Upper Holloway, London, was recorded as the married head of the household at ‘Portelli’, Ridge Hill, Dartmouth, Devon. He lives there with his wife of six years, Annie Louisa, (aged 35 and born Dublin) and their only child, the 5 year old Henry John Dixon Wright, born Southsea Hampshire.

Aboard H.M.S. Albermarle.  Chaplain Henry Dixon Dixon-Wright, M.V.O.,M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

The birth of a Henry Dixon Wright, mothers’ maiden name Box, was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Islington District of London in Q2 1870. There is no equivalent registration in England and Wales for a Henry Dixon-Wright.

At the time of his original appointment in 1899 he was simply shown as The Reverend Henry Dixon Wright, B.A..

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27132/page/6601/data.pdf

The marriage of a (forenames) Henry Dixon (surname) Wright, to a Annie Louisa Lawrie was recorded in the Portsmouth District of Hampshire in Q2 of 1904.

The couple may have had another child – the birth of a Frank W.D. Wright, mothers’ maiden name Lawrie, was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Totnes District of Devon in Q2 of 1911.

Died at Jutland (as Dixon Wright)

http://www.linda-parker.co.uk/naval-chaplains-in-the-first-world-war/

CWGC has him as Henry Dixon Dixon-Wright. He was aged 46 and serving aboard H.M.S. Barham. The additional information shown is that he was the Son of Henry Wright, of Wallington, Surrey; husband of A. Louisa Dixon-Wright, of 24, Stanley St., Southsea, Portsmouth.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/667370/dixon-wright,-the-rev.-henry-dixon/

The 1916 Probate Calendar does show his surname as Dixon-Wright, but only records him in the section for the surname Wright. His address is recorded as Beaufort Lodge, Dartmouth. He was a Chaplain on H.M.S. Barham who died at Sea on the 1st June 1916.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Wright&yearOfDeath=1916&page=5#calendar

 

To be continued....

 

[PRC]

Apologies - just come across the list I wrote out earlier in the summer and realised I never finished posting it.

 

E.

 

Edwards, Maurice Henry

Aboard H.M.S. Queen. Chaplain Maurice Henry Edwards,B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Ellis, Wilfred.

Survived sinking of H.M.S. Hogue – see earlier post.

http://www.linda-parker.co.uk/naval-chaplains-in-the-first-world-war/

 

Embling, Hugh John

Aboard H.M.S. Agincourt. Acting Chaplain for Temporary Service Hugh John Embling, M.A.

Seniority 5 August 1914 from September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Evans, James Percy

Aboard HMS Achilles. Chaplain James Percy Evans, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

F.

 

Fargus, Archibald Hugh Conway

The 32 year old Archibald Hugh Conway Fargus, a married man born Clifton, Gloucestershire, and a Chaplain in the Royal Navy, was recorded at his home address of 33 Outram Road Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire on the 1911 Census of England & Wales.

Wiki Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Fargus

However Page 245 of the London Gazette 10 January 1913 in announcement dated 9th January 1913 shows the Reverend Archibald Hugh Conway Fargus as allowed to withdraw from the Royal Navy with a Gratuity.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28680/page/245/data.pdf

Bio with picture here https://victorianprofessions.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/the-unusual-obituary-of-archibald-hugh-conway-fargus/

Aboard H.M.S. Monmouth. Acting Chaplain for Temporary Service Archibald Hugh Conway Fargus, M.A. Seniority 5 August 1914 from September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Fenn, William

Aboard H.M.S. Bellerophon. Chaplain William Fenn, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Field, Cuthbert Thomas Finch

Aboard H.M.S. Blake. Chaplain Cuthbert Thomas Finch Field, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Fielding, Gerald Trueman

Aboard H.M.S. Roxburgh. Chaplain Gerald Trueman Fielding, M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Flower, William John

Aboard H.M.S. Fox. Chaplain William John Flower, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Ford, William Lewis

Died 1918

HMS Suffolk

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7663151

 

Foster, Henry Clapham, (aka H.C.)

Royal Naval Division. Survived.

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/6101718

Temporary Chaplain, 2nd Brigade in September 1914 when quoted in The Hood Battalion by Leonard Sellers

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uoGjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PP21&lpg=PP21&dq=London+Gazette+Royal+Navy+Henry+Clapham+Chaplain&source=bl&ots=GXLSuZtmbn&sig=ACfU3U2leRmd-smWucVzTMXNtdovc9hcbA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwip8LSFj6jqAhUhWxUIHSDSDx0Q6AEwBHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=London Gazette Royal Navy Henry Clapham Chaplain&f=false

 

Francis, Walter Bernard Kendall

Chaplain in 1889

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/6905084

On the 1911 Census of England & Wales the 55 year old Walter Bernard Kendall Francis, a Chaplain and Naval Instructor, RN, born Crediton, was recorded staying with his married brother John at Colyford near Axminster, Devon.

Retired List 2nd January 1912 on his appointment to the Greenwich Hospital living of Simonburn, Northumberland (Page 33 LG 2nd January 1912)

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28568/page/33/data.pdf

 

Fraser, Albert E.

Aboard H.M.S. Leviathan. Acting Chaplain for Temporary Service Albert E Fraser. Seniority August 1914 from September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

G.

 

Gage, Alexander Hugh

Aboard H.M.S. Exmouth. Chaplain Alexander Hugh Gage, M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Gay, John James

Aboard H.M.S. Iron Duke. Chaplain John James Gay,M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Gilbertson, Arthur Deane

Boys Training Establishment Powerful III, Devonport. Chaplain Arthur Deane Gilbertson, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Gosselin, Guy St. Leger Hyde

Aboard H.M.S. Caesar. Chaplain Guy St. Leger Hyde Gosselin, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Goudge, William Henry

HMS Russell – survived

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7690366

Aboard H.M.S. King George V. Chaplain and Naval Instructor William Henry Goudge, M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Gough. Paschal Claude

HMS Indomitable – survived

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7684304

Aboard H.M.S. Indomitable. Chaplain Paschal Claude Gough, B.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Graham, Christopher.

The 32 year old married man, the Reverend Christopher Graham, M.A, born Chesterton, Cambridge, was recorded on the 1911 Census of England & Wales aboard H.M.S. Essex, (Captain the Hon. Victor A. Stanley, M.V.O.)

Aboard H.M.S. Vulcan – Special Torpedo Vessel Depot Ship. Chaplain Christopher Graham,M.A. September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Grieg, George Anthony

Died HMS Russell 1916.

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7663152

 

Griffiths, Thomas Turner.

Aboard H.M.S. Irresistible. Chaplain and Naval Instructor Thomas Turner Griffiths, September 1914 Monthly Navy List

 

Gwydir, Basil. (Robert Basil Gwydir on CWGC).

“Dom Basil Gwydir of Douai Abbey and St David*s Priory, Swansea. Following hisappointment as full-time officiating chaplain, Canon Gwydir worked at Rosyth andQueensferry and at the end of October 1914 departed for Portsmouth in the HomeFleet hospital ship Rohilla carrying sick and wounded seamen and marines. During astorm on October 30 the ship was wrecked off Whitby. Fr Gwydir remained on board with the wounded and was drowned with them.”

http://www.monlib.org.uk/papers/ebch/1998hagerty.pdf

Roman Catholic chaplain Basil Gwydir died when the hospital ship Rohilla on 30 October 1914, as he stayed with the wounded as the ship sunk.

http://www.linda-parker.co.uk/naval-chaplains-in-the-first-world-war/

Son of Robert Clarke and Sarah Anne Gwydir of Longford, Ireland. Member of the OSB.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4041227/gwydir,-the-rev.-robert-basil/

 

 

[Ron Clifton]

On 28/06/2020 at 23:39, PRC said:

Entry in the 1915 Probate Calendar.

Looks like they have been partially discussed in a previous thread in connection with tracking down Naval Chaplains records at the National Archive.

As an aside, a chaplain who could leave an estate totalling £5576 10s 10d in 1915 - perhaps half a million in today's money - must have been quite unusual!

 

Ron

[keithmroberts]

3 hours ago, Ron Clifton said:

As an aside, a chaplain who could leave an estate totalling £5576 10s 10d in 1915 - perhaps half a million in today's money - must have been quite unusual!

 

The Anglican church was very establishment, stuffed with the gentry in large numbers. That's still big money though.