IN MEMORIAM

Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15561, 24 July 1918, Page 7

IN MEMORIAM

LATE CHAPLAIN-CAPTAIN DORE,

This morning a solemn Requiem Mass was held at St. Mary’s Church, the impressive service being attended by a large congregation. The celebrant of the Mass was the Rev. Father O’Connell, and the Fathers Harnett, Duffy, Dwyer, Fay, and Farrell aJso assisted. In the course of an address delivered by Father Harnett he said that though the ceremony which they ware attending was full of sadness, it was consoling 'that their faith enabled them to look forward to a reunion with their dear departed friend, while fostering their friendship by offering prayers and sacrifice to God on his half. As a parish priest the late .Chaplain-Captain Dore deserved well of the people of this country; as a pastor whose maiden missionary labours for Palmerston North were entered up by his recording angel, he bad no small claim on the people of his parish: and as a confrere in the ministry he would ever hold a happy place in the memory of his brother, priests. Stronger than all, there was a claim arising out of a close and intimate companionship which had lasted for the past seventeen years between the deceased chaplain and himself. The deceased was bnt 32 years -of age. He was ordainqjl a priest in 1910, arrived in the land of his adoption from West Liberisk, where he was bom, and served as a curat© in Palmerston North a rector at Kaikora and Foxton, and was one of the first chaplains to leave with the N.Z. Expeditionary Forces. Father Harnett paid a warm trobute to the untiring devotion to duty displayed by the deceased chaplain during the period he served at the front, and with deep feeling related the circumstances attending the incident at Gallipoli, where he’was wounded.