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Title: | Items from the personal effects of Fr. John Butler O.F.M., army chaplain during the First World War |
Authors: | the Capuchin Archive |
Keywords: | WWI First World War World War One British Army Chaplain Capuchin Order Fr. John Butler OFM Great War |
Issue Date: | Jan-1914 |
Description: | Items from the personal effects of Fr. John Butler O.F.M. He was appointed a chaplain in the British Army with the rank of Captain,and remained an army chaplain until he was demobilised in 1919. Fr. John spent the majority of the First World War ministering to Catholic soldiers in the Middle East and Palestine as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF). From 1917, he witnessed at first hand the various battles in Palestine and around Damascus as the Allies struggled with the Ottoman Turks for control of this strategically important region. Fr. John returned to Ireland in 1919 and spent the following eleven years in the Capuchin Friary on Church Street, Dublin. He died in Cork on 3 October 1950. |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10599/11103 |
Copyright: | Reproduced by kind permission of the Irish Capuchin Provincial Archives. South Dublin Libraries do not own the reproduction rights to this image. If you wish to reproduce this image please write to the Capuchin Provincial Archives, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, or e-mail capuchinarchives@gmail.com |
Appears in Collections: | Published Items World War I |
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