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Twenty-one Who Went Overseas Have Been Wounded
Dated: February 13, 1919
London, Feb. 12 – The total number of Canadian chaplains now serving in the overseas forces is 436. The number of honors gained include five C.M.G.’s, nine D.S.O’s, 33 M.C.’s; 35 mentioned in dispatches and 13 brought to the notice of the secretary of state for war.
Two chaplains were killed in action; one died of wounds; one was drowned on the Llandovery Castle, which was sunk by a German submarine. Two died of illness and twenty-one were wounded.
Transcribed by: avidgenie