Postcard of Army Scripture Reader Rice
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| Subject | Rice, ? |
|---|---|
| Title | Postcard of Army Scripture Reader Rice |
| Notes | Noted as 'A great man'. The Army Scripture Readers undertook pastoral and missionary work among the troops, and all were or had been serving soldiers. [Editor note: the SASRA have contacted the collection to provide some further details about Army Scripture Reader Rice: ASR Henry Rice, born 18 March 1855 Stoke-in-Teignhead, Devon. No record of his regiment. He was quite old when he joined SASRA at 60yrs.] Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodleian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph. |
| Item Date | 1914 - 1918 |
| Creation place | Britain |
| File type | Image |
| Item source | Photograph |
| Item medium | Photographic paper |
| Content | Postcard |
| Cataloguer | Richard Marshall |
| Copyright | The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor |
| Digital repository | The Great War Archive, University of Oxford |
| Contributor Name | Stuart Lee |
| Contributed on the behalf of | P Vainker |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9052 |
