Fr. Willie Doyle KIA during Battle of Messines 1917

#OnThisDay 1917 Fr. Willie Doyle from Dublin was killed at Passchendaele having run “all day hither and thither over the battlefield like an angel of mercy”. He was chaplain to the 16th Irish Division but was loved by men of all faiths.

Fr Willie DOyle

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