THE ARMY CHAPLAIN.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11356, 20 August 1902, Page 7

THE ARMY CHAPLAIN.

During the past three (years we have heard a good deal about Army chaplains, and Mr Horace Wyndhaan, in the '* Sunday Strand," gives some particulars concerning their status and pay which are net generally known. A clergyman desirous of becoming an Army chaplain has first to be nominated for such an appointment. He must then have been three years in Orders, and be between the age of twenty-seven and thirty-five. He is sent to a garrison on a year's probatian. During thes period he is placed under the charge of a chaplain, who trains him in the duties he will afterwards be called upon to fulfil. He is then enrolled, as a "fourth class chaplain." While serving in this capacity he ranks as captain, and draws a salary of £182 10s per annum, with fuel, light, and quarters in addStictx After ten yeara' service in this grade he is advanced to the "third class," and enjoys the status and pay of a major. On promotion to the "first-class" his stipend is raised to £410 12a 6d per annum, and his rank is that of a colonel. After twenty years' service a chaplain may claim to retire on a pension of 12s 6d per diem, and is compelled to do so an attaining the age of sixty*.