DYING CHAPLAIN'S HEROISM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2505, 5 July 1915, Page 8

DYING CHAPLAIN'S HEROISM

IRISH REGIMENT'S GREAT LOSSES. The devotion of a chaplain to Lis duties is described in a letter written on May 6 by tho Rev. Patrick Dore, formerly of Foxtou, who is one of tho chaplains ivith the Mounted Rifles Brigade, to Archbishop O'Shea. "Our poor boys, particularly of Auckland and Wellington, have lost quite a large number of officers and men," he wrote. "Father Finu, of the Dublin Fusiliers, was liit four times in the chest wliilo on the boat going from the ship to the beach. As he was taken from the boat, although in great agony, he attempted to admin-' ister the last rites to somo who were around liim. An honi after arriving on land he was struck by another bullet in the head. Ho died within :an hour. The Dublius, a battalion strong, landed under a constant fusillade or rille. and machine-gun lire within a range of 30yds. They were practically annihilated. Two 'days after landing the Dublius and Ministers were able to muster only «• company between tliem. . . •.

I hope you will send ns more priests, for, even occlusive of casualties among us, the work of attending to tho wounded is growing exceeding heavy. Our wounded in Cairo are scattered, over live hospitals, fresh cases como in every day, and moro hospitals are being opened, which makes a lot of work for ono priest;' l ,