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How Anglican chaplains shaped Anzac Day (and Australia)
['John Sandeman']
THE OTHER CHEEK
In an online essay, historian Michael Gladwin captures the post-war impact of the extraordinary cohort of chaplains who left comfortable parishes for the front line of World War One, profoundly shaping the way Australia commemorates Anzac Day and a lot more.
Brothers in Alms: Australian Anglican Army Chaplains and the Impact of the First World War, 1919–1939, is published in the Cambridge University Press Journal of Anglican Studies and is open access online.
By the early 1930s around one-third of the unemployed in Melbourne had not seen work for three years.
“Upon his return to Sydney, Talbot helped co-found the Industrial Christian Fellowship in 1923 with trade unionist Albert Willis.
Gladwin’s essay gives a picture of a very different Anglican Church in Australia – the yet-to-be-federated Church of England dioceses of the interwar years, when a blossoming Anglo-Catholic sensibility shaped how many served Christ, and how returning chaplains offered a link to ordinary Australians.