Woodbine Willie: An Unsung Hero of World War One

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The offensive forced the German Army to move reserves to Flanders from the Arras and Aisne fronts, which relieved pressure on the French Army.

My choice of Lenten poem today is ‘Indifference’, or ‘When Jesus came to Birmingham,’ written by Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy while he was a chaplain during World War I. Woodbine Willie felt God’s heartbeat for people and ministered faithfully, through practical love and through his poetry, to the ordinary soldiers living through ‘hell on earth’ in the trenches. EXCLUSIVE: Grace Dent's I'm A Celeb ordeal was 'a mental battle rather than physical' as food critic flies... This British surname is barrelled, being made up of multiple names. It should be written as Studdert Kennedy, not Kennedy. G. A. Studdert Kennedy, 1918 Studdert Kennedy is commemorated with a feast day on the liturgical calendars of the Church of England and the Episcopal Church (USA) on 8 March.Shane Warne's children reveal they believe the legend 'might still be with us today' if he'd taken one simple step before that fateful trip to Thailand Eleanor Tomlinson reveals why she refused to do nude scenes in new erotic Channel 4 thriller: 'Those pictures end up online and will forever be there'

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