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Padre, Prisoner and Pen-Pusher - The World War One Experiences of the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke (Hardcover)
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Padre, Prisoner and Pen-Pusher - The World War One Experiences of the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke (Hardcover)
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Few army chaplains had as varied a career during the First World
War as the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke. A regular army chaplain who
had seen service in the Boer War he was mobilised with 54 other
chaplains at the start of hostilities. He went to France with 4
Field Ambulance where he was taken prisoner by the Germans at the
end of August 1914. He was repatriated in July 1915 and wrote a
book of his experiences. Returning to France he served as frontline
chaplain before being posted to serve as a staff chaplain to the
Deputy Chaplain General. Posted back to the UK in June 1918 he died
on 25th December 1918 during the flu epidemic. The central part of
the book is a transcription of the diary he kept during January to
June 1918. At the heart of the administration of Church of England
chaplaincy on the Western Front he recorded an inside view of how
chaplains were thinking, particularly about postwar British
society. His notes include record of sermons preached throughout
the war which give a fascinating record of one chaplain's
perspective on the developing war. The book puts the experiences of
Ben O'Rorke within the context of chaplaincy during the First World
War. His story ran in parallel to that of Bishop Llewellyn Gwynne,
Bishop of Khartoum, who had been in London in August 1914 and with
the help of O'Rorke had been commissioned into the Army
Chaplains'Department. Gwynne had prepared O'Rorke for confirmation.
It is into Gwynne's office as DCG that O'Rorke would be posted.
Gwynne's extensive war time diaries help to shed light on O'Rorke
and his work. This book will appeal to all who are interested in
how a regular army chaplain coped with mobilisation, life as a
prisoner of war, and then of the ever lengthening war. It provides
information on the large number of chaplains with whom he came into
contact whilst keeping the diary. As well as an introduction and
notes to explain the diary and other writings there is a discussion
about the value of chaplains'diaries and letters in understanding
the First World War. Additionally, guidance is provided as to where
original source material can be located.
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