GREEN, Walter Gerard Arthur
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 29th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | 1887, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Church of England Clerk in Holy Orders |
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World War 1 Service
| 10 Nov 1915: | Involvement Australian Army Chaplains' Department, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 10 Nov 1915: | Involvement Captain, 29th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 10 Nov 1915: | Embarked Australian Army Chaplains' Department, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne | |
| 10 Nov 1915: | Embarked Captain, 29th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne |
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MILITARY CHAPLAINS.
Combined Service Trouble.
Rev. W. G. A. Green, formerly sub warden of St. Aidan'e College, Ballarat,and now chaplain to No. 1 A.G.H., France, writing from Rouen to the 'Church Standard,' states he regrets Dr. Rentoul's attack of some months ago on the English church for claiming Church of England services for Church of England men. Before he (Mr. Green) left Ballarat he had always counselled the avoiding of anything savoring of so-called combined Protestant services. When he got his commission he thought that perhaps it was bigotry or narrow-mindedness which lad before impelled him. He therefore, at the request of his 'brigadier, took part in tie combined services issued by authority for use on church parades. Had he known then, as he did afterwards, that on the previous Easter day the Jewish Rabbi had taken part in the same service, he thought he would have hesitated. He and Mr. Makeham encountered trouble at Heliopolia, and were paraded before the O.C. for presuming to arrange Church of England services for Church of England men. their accuser being the Presbyterian Colonel-chaplain. The O.C. decided there was no case, and they got orders to 'carry on ' The writer's experience was that combined services were a failure. They left a totally wrong impression on the men's minds, that 'they were all Protestants together,' and that 'one's as good as another,' which they did not believe in, or they would not be divided at home. Was it straight to pretend that they were all one out there, and then deny it the day they landed in Australia ? The church's demand was a perfectly fair and clear-cut one, and was identical, as their senior chaplains said, with that of the Romau Lathones. It was a joyful sign of the growing strength of the Australian church that she had rejected a spurious but popular chanty in favor of loyalty to 'her history, her catholicity and to her divine head.
The Age Tuesday 08 August 1916 page 6