CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24161, 31 December 1941, Page 9

CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS

THREE TAKEN PRISONER CAPTURED IN LIBYA Following receipt of a letter from the Rev. L. Spring, S.M., > senior Roman Catholic chaplain with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Bishop Liston announced yesterday that thjee New Zealand chaplains had been taken prisoner in the Libyan campaign. The three priests were the Rev. Fathers E ._„ J - Forsman, W. Sheeley and B. Kingan, S.M., and they were stated to be receiving consideration and respect from the Italian authorities into whose hands they had fallen.

Father Sheeley, the first Auckland priest to join the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, was formerly parish priest'at Cambridge. He entered camp in September, 1939, and lefx New Zealand with the First Echelon in 1940. He was with the division in Greece and Crete. Formerly assistant priest at Ormond, Povertv Bay, Father Forsman was accepted'as a'chaplain early in 1940 and was in the Burnham and Papakura camps. He sailed with the Second Echelon and eventually became chaplain at the New Zealand base hospital in Egypt. Father Kingan, S.M., formerly of Christchurch, was on the teaching staff of St. Patrick's College, Silverstream, when he was appointed to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He left New Zealand in February, 1941.