A military chaplain ministers to military personnel and, in most cases, their families and civilians working for the military. In some cases, they will also work with local civilians within a military area of operations.
A Catholic chaplain celebrating mass in an Austrian military hospital in 1916
An Orthodox priest administers Holy Communion to a wounded Russian soldier during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905
Anglican Archbishop Riley addressing a crowd as 'Chaplain-General to the AIF'
Fr. Thomas Mooney, a Catholic chaplain of the 69th Infantry Regiment of the New York State Militia, at a mass with fellow soldiers at Fort Corcoran, Arlington Heights, Virginia, 1861
A civilian is a person not a member of an armed force nor a person engaged in hostilities.
Wounded civilians arrive at a hospital in Aleppo during the Syrian civil war, October 2012