PICTURESQUE SETTING
ARMY CHURCH IN HILLS Sydney, April 12. When the Indian Seventeenth Division moved back along the Chin Hills in Burma toward the Manipur Plain, a North England unit had to give up one of the highest situated Army churches in the world, says a "Sydney Morning Herald” war correspondent, in a despatch from Imphal. This was Saint Andrews’-in-the-Hills. on the 8800 ft Kennedy Peak, near Tiddim. Its “rector” was Chaplain E. C. King, who was born in Northampton. Western Australia, and went to England in 1935 to become a curate in Northampton. England. "Saint Andrews’-in-the-Hills looked like a church and felt like a church,” he said. The church, which was consecrated on 6th February, was made of bamboo, and could seat 40 in pews made of logs of wood, with sandbags to kneel on. The church had a cross on the roof and its name on a board outside. The a/.ar pieces were made of shellcases. and the altar covering of dyed mosquitonetting.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 18 April 1944, Page 3
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