Remembering our War Dead...
Fr Bernard Kavanagh CSsR, Army chaplain during WWI.
Buried in Jesusalem War Cemetery
100years later a Redemptorist Group came to pay their respects.
The Salve Regina was sung and we retreated in silence.
Rev. B. Kavanagh
Chaplain to the Forces
4th Class
21st December 1917 Age 53
Priest of the Congregation
of the Most Holy Redeemer
He died in 1917,
shot by a Turkish sniper on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem.
His name can be found engraved in Westminster Cathedral - among other places.
