TAKEN PRISONER
AN NOW IN ITALIAN HANDS. THREE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. ' Private advice has been received by Bishop Liston from Major Leo Spring, S.M., Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain with the N.Z.E.F., that three Roman Catholic chaplains with the New Zealanders in Libya have been taken prisoner. Fathers E. Forsman/W. Sheely and B. Kingan, S.M., are held by the Italians, who are showing them every consideration and respect. Father Sheely was parish priest at Cambridge and was through Greece and Crete. Father Forsman was assistant priest at Ormond, Poverty Bay, and sailed early this year. He was chaplain at a base hospital in Egypt. Father Kingan was formerly of Christchurch and the St. Patrick’s College, Silverstream, near Wellington.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1941, Page 6
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