February 22. N Ireland chaplain won Military Cross three times. Roll of Honour

One of today’s veterans was the most high-ranking Irish chaplain in WW1. He was awarded the Military Cross three times and Mentioned in Despatches. Rev Dr James G Paton ministered in Coleraine. He was a member of the committee responsible for the erection of the town’s War Memorial and was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland in 1931. Thomas Morrison served with the Royal Marine Brigade, survived the Dardanelles, and fell at the Somme in 1917. In 1919 Fred Lockhart of Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and Thomas Walsh of the Connaught Rangers died as the result of war service. In 1944 Thomas Nelson from Larne was part of a seven man crew on board a Halifax bomber on a night raid of Leipzig. They were shot down. Photo – De Panne Communal Cemetery where many men from Operation Dynamo are remembered. Get today’s report here –