Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John Burden SJ
- IE IJA CHP/2/13
- File
- 4 September 1941-28 March 1946
Part of Irish Jesuit chaplains
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John Burden SJ written while serving as chaplain in Catterick Camp, Yorkshire and with the 6th King’s Own Scottish Borders in Northumberland; in Nottingham (where he was promoted to Senior Chaplain (S.C.F. (R.C.) ); in India, South Africa and Iraq with Paiforce (Persian and Iraq Forces); 114th Rest/Transit Camp; 162nd Transit Camp in Damascus and Palestine. Some letters in the form of airgraphs. Includes his last letter written on 28 March 1946 concerning his release from the Army in May.
Burden, John, 1907-1974, Jesuit priest and chaplain