Padre, Prisoner and Pen-Pusher: The World War One Experiences of the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke

by PeterHowson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2015

  $22.53

  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.