Combined Operations Chaplains
Extract from The Sphere - Saturday 10 June 1944. Image © Illustrated London News Group. Source:British Newspaper Archive (website britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk); The British Library Board.
THE COMBINED OPERATIONS CHAPLAINS MEET:- A conference of Navy and Army Chaplains who are serving Combined Operations personnel and Commando Units was held recently under the direction of their Senior Chaplain, the Rev. B. G. Beale, R.N. Speakers at the Conference were the Chaplain of the Fleet, the Second Sea Lord, the General Officer Commanding Commando Units and the Director of Combined Operations Personnel. This picture, taken at the Conference, shows (from left lo right) Chaplain of the Fleet the Venerable Archdeacon J. K. Wilson, B.A., R.N; the General Officer Commanding S.S. Group, Major- General R. G. Sturges, R.M; the Second Sea Lord, Vice-Admiral Sir Algernon U. Willis, K.C.B., D.S.O; the Senior Chaplain, Combined Operations, Rev. B. G. Beale, R.N. and Director of Combined Operations Personnel, Captain R. H. V. Buxton. R.N.
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