GILES, Robbie Abney
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Chaplains' Department |
| Born: | Morrisons, Vic., 29 April 1886 |
| Home Town: | Sunbury, Hume, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Church of England Minister of Religion |
| Died: | 1966, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Sunbury War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 1 May 1918: | Involvement Australian Army Chaplains' Department, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
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| 1 May 1918: | Embarked Australian Army Chaplains' Department, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
PRAYER BOOK CONTROVERSY,
An Outspoken Clergyman.
The Rev. R. A. Giles, M.A., Vicar of Sheriff Hales, Shropshire, an Australian who had been in England since the war, passed through Fremantle yesterday in the liner Orvieto on his way to the Eastern States. For the past fIve years Mr. Giles was engaged upon the compilation of a. book,''The Constitutional History of the Church in Australia,' the manuscript of which he has brought with him to show to the Australian bishops. He said yesterday that the book had been compiled under the , 'superintendence of Professor C. N. Jenkins, D.D., who occupies the chair of ecclesiastics at Oxford, and it was intended as a reference book. .
Referring to the Prayer Book controversy Mr. Giles said that the general trend of thought in England was in favour of its introduction. The book had passed the houses of bishops, clergy and laiety. and . was now awaiting consideration by Parliament. There was strong. opposition, from a section of the Church prinicipally the evangelists whose opinions ; might be strongly represented in either the House of Commons or the House of Lords. He thought that if either of the Houses did not pass the measure it would be the first step towards the dis-establishment of the Church. A native of Melbourne, Mr. Giles accompanied the A.I.F. to France as a chaplain, and he was gassed twice during the war. After the Armistice he was appointed organising secretary to the Bishop of London, and three years later he accepted his present appointment. He is a good horseman, and in Shropshire is known as 'The Hunting Parson' because of his fondness for fox hunting.
The West Australia Wednesday 05 October 1927 page 11
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