Rough Talks by a Padre

By Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy · Running time 07:16:36 · War & Military, Christianity - Other

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Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy MC was an ordained Anglican priest, who in the early stages of World War I volunteered for duty as a chaplain to the British army on the Western Front. Studdert Kennedy was one of the most well-known and highly respected chaplains of the First World War, who though himself unarmed, accompanied the British troops into battle at the front line to provide whatever help he could to lessen their suffering and to raise their morale. He was soon widely known by his nom de guerre ‘Woodbine Willie’. This nickname was acquired from his practice of handing out (at his o

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