Eustace St Clair Hill

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Eustace St Clair Hill, né le 15 février 1873 et mort le 12 février 1953, est un prêtre britannique. Anglican, il est chapelain militaire en Afrique du Sud, puis durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Converti au catholicisme en 1938, il devient moine sous le nom de Frère Jacques en 1939. rdf:langString
Captain Eustace Hill MC was an Anglican Padre of the South African Brigade during the First World War. He won the Military Cross for bravery at the Butte de Warlencourt where he lost his right hand. He was back at Longueval and Delville Wood in 1919 identifying and burying the dead of his Brigade. After the war he returned to St. John's College and became their headmaster from 1922 to 1930. He was responsible for the extension of the school's buildings and for the chapel which was dedicated as a war memorial, and contains one of the five crosses made from the remains of the trees at the battle of Delville Wood. Eustace Hill did not approve of contraception and converted to Catholicism in 1938. He became a monk in 1939, taking the name Brother James. He entered a monastery in Hampshire and rdf:langString
rdf:langString Eustace St Clair Hill
rdf:langString Eustace St Clair Hill
rdf:langString Father Eustace St Clair Hill, CR
rdf:langString Father Eustace St Clair Hill, CR
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xsd:date 1873-02-15
rdf:langString Padre Eustace Hill painted by Hugh Dent
xsd:date 1953-02-12
rdf:langString Captain Eustace Hill MC was an Anglican Padre of the South African Brigade during the First World War. He won the Military Cross for bravery at the Butte de Warlencourt where he lost his right hand. He was back at Longueval and Delville Wood in 1919 identifying and burying the dead of his Brigade. After the war he returned to St. John's College and became their headmaster from 1922 to 1930. He was responsible for the extension of the school's buildings and for the chapel which was dedicated as a war memorial, and contains one of the five crosses made from the remains of the trees at the battle of Delville Wood. Eustace Hill did not approve of contraception and converted to Catholicism in 1938. He became a monk in 1939, taking the name Brother James. He entered a monastery in Hampshire and remained there until his death on 12 February 1953.
rdf:langString Eustace St Clair Hill, né le 15 février 1873 et mort le 12 février 1953, est un prêtre britannique. Anglican, il est chapelain militaire en Afrique du Sud, puis durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Converti au catholicisme en 1938, il devient moine sous le nom de Frère Jacques en 1939.
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