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The First World War Diaries of the Rt. Rev. Llewellyn Gwynne, July 1915-July 1916 (Hardcover)
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The First World War Diaries of the Rt. Rev. Llewellyn Gwynne, July 1915-July 1916 (Hardcover)
Series: Church of England Record Society
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The Right Reverend Llewellyn Gwynne's diaries offer a unique
insight into a period of change for the army, chaplains and the
Church of England during a critical period of the First World War.
Few men spent the whole of World War One serving in the British
Expeditionary Force, from its initial deployment in August 1914 to
its demobilization in February 1919. One who did was the Right
Reverend Llewellyn Gwynne, the bishop of Khartoum. On leave in
London in the summer of 1914, he persuaded the archbishop of
Canterbury that his experience with troops in the Sudan made him an
ideal candidate for a temporary commission as a chaplain. Gwynne
went to France with a Hospital and then, in December 1914, was
transferred to a Field Ambulance in the front line. During July
1915, he was summoned back to London to be told that he was now the
Deputy Chaplain General and thus responsiblefor the oversight of
all Anglican chaplains. An inveterate diarist, Gwynne kept a
detailed record of his life as a unit chaplain and how he managed
the transition to high office in the Army Chaplains' Department.
The diaries arepreceded by an introduction that discusses the work
and organisation of Anglican chaplains in the department and how
Gwynne came to have the role in it that he did. Together, they
offer a unique insight into a period of change forthe army,
chaplains and the Church of England during a critical period of the
war. The Rev. Dr PETER HOWSON is a Methodist Minister who had a
career as an army chaplain before turning to research. He is the
author of Muddling Through: The organisation of British army
chaplaincy in the First World War and is the Secretary of the
Society for Army Historical Research.
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