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unusual facts about Military chaplain



Calvin Warburton

Warburton grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts and worked as a military chaplain in World War II, Korea and Germany, then in the National Guard.

Military–church relations in Fiji

On 1 October 2005, Commodore Bainimarama warned the Methodist Church, to which some two-thirds of indigenous Fijians belong, that their support for the Unity Bill would jeopardize their right to supply chaplains to Fijian soldiers performing United Nations peacekeeping duties in the Middle East.

Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman

From 1946-1949 Whitman served as a chaplain to the U.S. Army in the Philippines before taking a position as associate rector of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he also served as chaplain to Episcopal students at the College of William and Mary.

SS Anselm

One officer who stayed aboard to the end was an Air Force chaplain lately of RAF Bridgnorth, Squadron Leader Cecil Pugh, who

The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen

The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen is a 1963 novel by the American writer and rabbi Herbert Tarr about a young rabbi serving as a United States Air Force military chaplain.


see also

Boudier

George Boudier (1820–1899), English cricketer and Anglican priest, served as a military chaplain in the Crimean War.

Claus Clausen

Claus Lauritz Clausen (1820–1892), pioneer Lutheran minister, military chaplain and politician

New Hope, Minnesota

Chaplain (Major, retired) Tim Vakoc – first United States military chaplain to be critically injured during Operation Iraqi Freedom, died in New Hope

St. Anthony, Minnesota

H. Timothy ("Tim") Vakoc – former associate pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, in St. Anthony, and the first U.S. military chaplain to die from wounds received in the Iraq War.