From the News

Dated: August 2, 1918

PERSONAL WORK OF ARMY CHAPLAINS

Are Doing Much to Draw Together Bonds Between Britain and Dominions.

Ottawa, Aug. 1. -- While the Canadian fighting troops have not been taking a very active part in the recent operations, the Canadian hospital casualties clearing stations in all of which large numbers of imperial troops are served have been working at top pressure, according to information received from overseas and by their efforts have done much to draw closer the bonds between the motherland and the Dominion.

The Canadian chaplains with these units have been doing work of peculiar personal interest.  Many of the chaplains have been working eighteen and twenty hours per day, ministering to the wounded, writing letters to friends and relatives on behalf of the severely wounded, and those who have died of wounds.

An idea of the extent of this work will be gleaned from the fact that one chaplain alone has received no less than 300 replies from families to whom he has written and supplied first-hand information during the last two months.  Such letters bring indescribable relief and comfort to the people at home.  These letters go to all parts of the English-speaking world, including England, Scotland, Ireland, United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada.

The wife of an imperial brigadier-general was so moved by the great kindness shown to her husband and officers of his brigade by the Canadian medical services and chaplain that she is endeavoring to have a V.A.D. hospital which is operating in England converted into a convalescent hospital for Canadians.