58723: Postcard of Army Scripture Reader Rice

Noted as 'A great man'. The Army Scripture Readers undertook pastoral and missionary work among the troops, and all were or had been serving soldiers.

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.