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Article: The court martial of an AIF Catholic chaplain.
- Article from:
- Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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At the end of World War I, the AIF senior Catholic chaplain, Fr Tom King, whose dedicated service had been honoured by his being invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, by HM King George V at Buckingham Palace, was further honoured when His Holiness, Pope Benedict XV, created him a Domestic Prelate at St Peter's in Rome. But barely had Monsignor King returned to London when he was notified by the Administrative Headquarters of the Australian Imperial Force, that a Roman Catholic chaplain, Fr Thomas J. O'Donnell, was being held under close arrest in Dublin, charged with 'disloyalty towards the Sovereign'.
A Victorian by birth, in his adopted ...