Father Gallery

Matania - Last Absolution of the Munsters

The Last General Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois - painting by Fortunino Matania. This painting relates to an incident in France in May of 1915, when the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers suffered very heavily at Rue du Bois, in the Pas de Calais close to Arras. The action was only one of many local attacks which ended disastrously through lack of support. Colonel Victor Rickard, recently appointed to command, was killed in the attack, as was his Adjutant, Captain Filgate. Both are represented in the picture, alongside Father Gleeson, who is shown giving the Absolution on the evening prior to the action taking place.
1915

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The Fat Boy of Peckham and his father

John Trundley, or sometimes, Trunley (1898 - 1944), known as the Fat Boy of Peckham appearing with his father on the front cover of The Tatler magazine in 1903 when he was aged five and already weighed 10 stone, 4lb. Unable to walk to school, London County Council proposed to run a tramway an additional 400 yards to Reddin's School so that John could receive an education, a decision criticised by Lord Northcliffe. Trundley lived to adulthood, married and had children, but died in an air raid in 1944. Date: 1903

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Princess Alice with Grand Duke Louis of Hesse

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hess with her husband, Grand Duke Louis (Ludwig IV) of Hesse (1843-1878). Alice was Queen Victoria's third child and second daughter. She married Louis on the 1st July 1862, at Osborne House beneath a portrait of her recently deceased father, Albert, Prince Consort. Alice and Louis had five daughters and two sons, including Alix, the future Tsaritsa of Russia. Alice's life was tragically cut short when she died of diptheria at the age of only 34, contracted while nursing her children. Alice is the maternal great-grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Date: 1862

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