Military chaplain
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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
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
Four Chaplains
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The Four Chaplains, also referred to as the Immortal Chaplains or the Dorchester Chaplains, were four chaplains who died rescuing civilian and military personnel as the American troop ship SS Dorchest
Military chaplain
…US military decoration given to military chaplains who have been killed in the line of duty, although it has to date only been awarded to the famous Four Chaplains, all of whom died in the Dorchester sinking in 1943 after giving up their lifejackets to others. In 2006, training materials obtained by US intelligence…
Undated photograph of the U.S. Army transport ship Dorchester.
History painting of Coast Guard Cutter USCGC Escanaba during the rescue of survivors of the sunken Dorchester.
Memorial, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Stained Glass at the U.S. Army Institute for Religious Leadership