OBITUARY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 229, 29 September 1942, Page 3

OBITUARY

PREBENDARY CARLILE London, Sept. 27. The death is announced, at the age of 95. of Prebendary Wilson Carlile, the venerable head of the Church Army. Prebendary Wilson Carlile was born at Brixton, London, and in 1862 went into business, in which he was very successful. He studied for the Church of England and was ordained in 1880, taking up work among the soldiers. He began the Church Army movement at Kensington in 1882. During the Great War it did excellent service among the tropps, providing among other things hostels and recreation huts. It is doing the same in this war. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1926 and in the following year, at the age of 80, he tramped through England to raise 1000 men for missionary work at home and abroad. A branch of the Church Army was formed in New Zealand in 1935, when Prebendary Carlile sent out a party of evangelists and sisters, the headquarters being Auckland, with Captain S. R. Banyard as Dominion director. SUCCESSOR APPOINTED. Advice has been received by the Church Army authorities in New Zealand that the Rev. Hubert H. Treacher, Rector of Hanley. Stoke-on-Trent, has been appointed to succeed Prebendary Carlile as general secretary of the Church Army.