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In memory of those who have Crossed the Bar
WHITE, Charles DeWolfe - 47, Command Chaplain (P) of the Atlantic Command, died in the RCN Hospital, Halifax, on April 22, following a brief illness. Funeral services, with full naval honors, were conducted April 25 from All Saints Cathedral, and burial was in Camp Hill cemetery. Archbishop G.F. Kingston, Anglican Archbishop of Nova Scotia and Primate of all Canada, officiated. A firing party of 24 men and a naval guard of honor led the procession from the cathedral to the cemetery. They were followed by the gun carriage bearing the flag-draped coffin and drawn by 32 men from "Stadacona". The honorary pall-bearers marched beside the gun carriage and were followed by the insignia bearer and pall-bearers. The mourners, consisting of clergy from the three armed forces and naval officers from ships and establishments of the Atlantic Command, were next in the procession, followed by an escort of 200 men from "Stadacona", "Magnificent" and "Shearwater". Private cars brought up the rear. Honorary pallbearers were Cdr. A.G. Boulton, Cdr. R.L. Hennessy, Cdr.(P) B.S. McEwen, Cdr.(S) H.A. Black, Cdr.(E) J.S. Horam, Ord. Cdr. G.B. MacLeod, Instr. Cdr. I.F. Ritchie and Cdr.(L) J. Deane. Pallbearers were Ordinary Seamen John C. Thomas, Bernard W. Dubois, George T. Parker, Richard V. Mallory, Joseph A. Appleyard and Francis MacArthur, all from "Stadacona". Padre White was widely known throughout the Service. Entering the Navy in 1940, he served first in HMCS "Venture", in the Halifax dockyard. In November 1942 he went to Ottawa and became the first Protestant chaplain to serve at Headquarters. A year later he went overseas to set up a chaplain service for the RCN in the United Kingdom. In August 1944 he was appointed to HMCS "Uganda" and remained in the cruiser throughout her period of service in the Pacific theatre. He left the "Uganda" in December 1945 to become Command Chaplain (P) at Halifax, an appointment he held until the time of his death. Padre White was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire in The King's New Year's Honors List of January 1945. The citation spoke of the marked success with which he had carried out his duties, both in Canada and overseas, and of Padre White's "great understanding of men" and his "excellent influence and great help to all those with home he came in contact". His services received further recognition when the degree of Bachelor of Divinity was conferred on him by The University of King's College in 1946. A native of Kentville, N.S., Chaplain White received his early schooling there, at Summerside, P.E.I., and at King's College School, Windsor, N.S. He graduated from the University of King's College, Halifax, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1925, and in 1927 was ordained to the priesthood of the Church of England in Canada in Christ Church, Windsor, N.S. Between 1927 and 1940, he served in the parishes at Arichat and Petite Riviere, N.S., was chaplain of King's College School and was rector of St. Luke's Church, Annapolis Royal, and St. George's Anglican Church, Halifax. He is survived by his wife, the former Gladys Blackall of St. John's Nfld., and one son, Andrew, residing at 16 Ogilvie St., Halifax; by his mother, Mrs. Ethel White, of Windsor, N.S., wife of the late Ven. Archdeacon Charles deW. White, and by five brothers and four sisters. (CROWSNEST Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, June, 1950)
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