Rev. Charles Pierrepont Edwards MC

Discussion in 'Military Biographies' started by liverpool annie, Jan 10, 2009.

  1. liverpool annie

    liverpool annie New Member

    I have been trying to find out about this Reverend .... I have just found snippets ... can anybody add anything ? :)

    I heard the Rev. Pierrepont Edwards ( 1/5th Suffolk Regiment ? ) on the 12th August ( Gallipoli ) when 11 Officers and 178 N.C.O.’s and men were killed, wounded or missing .... the Reverend was in charge of a volunteer stretcher-party and was commended for the Military Cross

    http://theartistandthetartist.blogspot.com/2008/12/jack-frost-fighting-parson.html

    There's a book I have to try and get ......

    Old Spiery - Mersea's "Fighting Parson"
    by Mary Stevens

    A true account of the Rev. Charles Pieriepont Edwards MC Vicar of the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul - West Mersea - 1898 - 1946
     
  2. liverpool annie

    liverpool annie New Member

  3. liverpool annie

    liverpool annie New Member

  4. liverpool annie

    liverpool annie New Member

    I found this ......

     
  5. Adrian Roberts

    Adrian Roberts Active Member

    He must have left a comfortable job to volunteer as an army chaplain - he can't have been that young if he was a vicar in 1898.

    If the film "All the King's Men" is the one I think they mean, it was a TV movie shown a few years back, and possibly one of the worst I have seen - an anti-establishment rant that ticked all the cliches
     

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