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FATHER BROWNES

FIRST WORLD WAR

Fr Frank Browne in 1919.

COVER PHOTOGRAPH:

Casualties near Ypres, Flanders (1917).

FATHER BROWNES

FIRST WORLD WAR

E E ODONNELL SJ

Published 2014 by MESSENGER PUBLICATIONS

Copyright 2014 E. E. ODonnell SJ

Photographs The Father Browne SJ Collection

All photographs in this volume are from The Father Browne SJ Collection except where otherwise credited in the accompanying caption.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photography, filming, recording, video recording, photocopying or by any information storage and retrieval system or shall not by way of trade or otherwise be lent, resold or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without prior permission in writing from the publisher. The moral rights of the author have been asserted.

Father Browne prints are available from

Davison and Associates, 69b Heather Road, Sandyford Industrial Estate, Dublin 18

www.fatherbrowne.com

ISBN 978-1-910248-02-7

eISBN 978-1-788123-85-3

Font: Avenir & Candara

Cover and text design: Paula Nolan, Messenger Publications Design Department

Photographs: Davison & Associates

DEDICATION

TO THE MEMORY

OF

CAPTAIN F M BROWNE SJ MC

AND

CAPTAIN G A ODONNELL MPSI

DIFFERENT WARS

DIFFERENT FATHERS

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

History	The Annals of Dublin, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1987
The Jesuits in Dublin, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1999
The Life and Lens of Father Browne, Dublin: Messenger Publications, 2014
Photography	Father Brownes Ireland, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1989
The Genius of Father Browne, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1990
Father Brownes Woodland Images: Society of Irish Foresters, 1992
Father Browne: A Life in Pictures, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1994
Father Brownes Australia, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1994
Father Brownes Cork, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1995
Father Brownes Dublin, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1996
Father Brownes England, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1996
LIrlande du Pre Browne, Paris: Anatolia Editions, 1996
Father Brownes Titanic Album, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1997
The Last Days of the Titanic, Boulder, Colorado: Roberts Rinehart, 1997
Titanic Postcards, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1997
Images of Aran, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1998
Father Brownes Ships and Shipping, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 2000
Father Brownes Tipperary, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 2001
Father Brownes Trains & Railways, Dublin: Currach Press, 2004
Father Brownes Limerick, Dublin: Currach Press, 2005
Father Brownes Galway, Dublin: Currach Press, 2006
All Our Yesterdays: Father Brownes Photographs of Children, Dublin: Currach Press, 2006
The Annals of Dublin (Updated), Dublin: Currach Press, 2008
The Father Browne Yeats, Dublin: Messenger Publications, 2010
The Father Browne Titanic Album, Centenary Edition, Dublin: Messenger Publications, 2011
Father Brownes Kerry, Dublin: Messenger Publications, 2012
Father Brownes Laois, Dublin: Messenger Publications, 2013
Religion	The Sacrament of the Sick, Dublin: Messenger Publications, 1985
Confession Today, Dublin: Messenger Publications, 1989
Sociology	Northern Irish Stereotypes, Dublin: College of Industrial Relations, 1977

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Father Frank Browne was just one of the many Jesuits who served as chaplains during the First World War. This is the story of his time in the army.

In fact his life was more spectacular both before and after the 1914-18 conflict. He had become famous in 1912 when the photographs he had taken on the maiden voyage of Titanic were published in newspapers across the world.

By the time he was demobilised from the Irish Guards in 1920, he had taken less than a thousand photographs, hardly more than the average happy snapper of the time. But by the end of his life, forty years later, he had taken over 42,000 pictures and was more than just an amateur photographer. He was sponsored by Kodak, commissioned to take photographs by the British and Irish governments, had won many gold medals for his pictures and had been instrumental in establishing Irelands International Salon of Photography.

The reader of these pages will see that Frank Browne was a genuinely holy man. He always put his priesthood first and foremost: I feel certain that he would like to be remembered as a good priest who took some good photographs.

The reader will be able to set this book in a fuller context by delving into Irish Jesuit Chaplains in the First World War issued by Messenger Publications, Dublin, in the winter of 2014.

The same busy reader will be able to find out what happened to Father Browne during the second half of his long life by investing in my biography of the priest, A Life in Pictures . This was re-issued in an updated version also by Messenger Publications earlier in 2014 with the new title The Life and Lens of Father Browne .

FATHER BROWNES FIRST WORLD WAR

E E ODONNELL SJ

W hen World War One broke out in 1914, John Redmond the leader of the Irish Party at Westminster asked the Irish Volunteers to join the British Army believing that this would lead to Home Rule after the war. Approximately 80,000 men answered the call, the vast majority of them being Roman Catholics. Chaplains were badly needed and the Religious Orders were asked to supply them. They did this on a voluntary basis and the Jesuits were not the last when it came to volunteering.

It is generally accepted that there was quite a close connection between the Jesuits and the Irish Party at that time. A large proportion of the Irish MPs, including the Redmonds, were educated in Jesuit colleges. John Fitzgibbon SJ, and the son of a Westminster MP, was killed while serving the Royal Army Medical Corps in France.

Figures differ from source to source, but my understanding is that thirty-two Irish Jesuits volunteered to serve as chaplains during the course of the war. Five members of the Irish Province died (Frs John Gwynn, Willie Doyle, John Fitzgibbon, Austin Hartigan and Edward Sydes) as did three Irishmen belonging to the English Province (Frs Timothy Carey of Limerick, Walter Montague of Portstewart and William Keary of Galway). Yet another to lose his life was Fr Michael Bergin SJ, a Tipperary man who belonged to the Lyon Province.

I list these fatalities at the start because it shows the good fortune of the other twenty-three chaplains. At least they got home alive! In Fr Frank Brownes case, he just about made it. He was injured five times and badly gassed once. He managed to survive all this and kept going back for more.

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