KING, Joseph Edward
| Service Number: | Chaplain |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 11 March 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Captain (Chaplain 4th Class) |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Chaplains' Department |
| Born: | 31 March 1874, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Fitzroy, Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Xavier College Kew; St. Patrick's Seminary Manly |
| Occupation: | Catholic Priest |
| Died: | Our Lady Help of Christians Presbytery, East Brunswick, Vic., 27 July 1935, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Our Lady Help of Christians Church |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Captain (Chaplain 4th Class) | |
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| 13 Apr 1915: | Involvement Australian Army Chaplains' Department, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Apr 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Captain (Chaplain 4th Class) , Chaplain, Australian Army Chaplains' Department, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
REV, J. E. KING
Rev Father J. E. King died at the presbytery, East Brunswick, on Saturday night, after a long illness.
Father King, born in 1871, was educated at Xavier College, Kew, and completed his ecclesiastical studies at St. Patrick's Seminary, Manly, where he was ordained in 1899. He was one of the first priests ordained from the Manly college. In his early priesthood he was stationed at Bacchus Marsh, South Melbourne, and St. Patrick's Cathedral, and for sometime he was spiritual director of the Catholic Young Men's Society, and acted as a chaplain to volunteer troops. During the war he was one of the Roman Catholic chaplains at the front. He was appointed first parish priest at East Brunswick In 1911. A tribute to Rev. Father King was paid at the sacred Heart Church, Kew, yesterday by Rev. Father Rafferty, who said Father King had done a giant's work in the priesthood. A Solemn office and Requiem Mass will place in Our Lady's Church, East Brunswick, tomorrow at 10.30 a.m., and Archbishop Mannix will preside.
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