Anzac Day, remembering MSC Military Chaplains.

Each Anzac Day, Lest We Forget – we as MSC have a long history of military chaplains and should pay tribute to them.

Jim Littleton MSC, our historian of remarkable MSC, published a revised  edition of his book on our war chaplains.

A good example is Fr James Gilbert MSC, longtime associated with St Brigid’s parish, Coogee.

Documentation from the Australian War Memorial website. And photos from Fromelles.

"Chaplain (4th Class) James Patrick Gilbert MC, 15th Brigade, from Randwick, NSW... was awarded the Military Cross in January 1917 for actions at Fromelles. Under heavy fire, Chaplain Gilbert had tended the wounded and dying unceasingly for 48 hours..." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)