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| dates                         = 1 June 1921-2 May 1969
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| march                         = "[[Onward Christian Soldiers]]"
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The '''Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps (RCAChC)''' was an [[Corps#Administrative|administrative corps]] of the [[Canadian Army]]. The Canadian Chaplain Service was first authorized on 1 June 1921. It was later Redesignated as The Canadian Army Chaplain Corps on 22 March 1948 and as The Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps on 3 June 1948. <ref>The Regiments and Corps of the Canadian Army (Queen's Printer, 1964)</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Organizational Corps |url=http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/organization/organizationalcorps.htm |access-date=2022-06-26 |website=www.canadiansoldiers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-11-20 |title=Chaplains Services Branch, Canadian Forces |url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/na-canada/corps/chaplain.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071120033650/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/na-canada/corps/chaplain.htm |archive-date=2007-11-20  |access-date=2022-07-01 }}</ref> The Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps was succeeded by the [[Chaplain Branch (Canadian Forces)|Chaplain Branch]] on May 2, 1969. The official march of the RCAChC was "[[Onward Christian Soldiers]]".

==Role==
Chaplains share the hardships and perils that fall to other service personnel.  "It is the business of the regimental padre to be the friend and adviser of the soldier, and the manner in which he has done this business has had more than a little to do with the maintenance of the morale of the army."<ref>http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/rep-rap/doc/cmhq/cmhq092.pdf C.P. Stacey 'General Activities, Canadian Army Overseas June 1942 - April 1943' 27 Apr 43</ref> [[John Weir Foote]], chaplain of the [[Royal Hamilton Light Infantry]], was awarded the [[Victoria Cross]] for his bravery under fire in helping care for the wounded and evacuate them from Dieppe.<ref>http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/rep-rap/doc/cmhq/cmhq092.pdf C.P. Stacey 'General Activities, Canadian Army Overseas June 1942 - April 1943' 27 Apr 43</ref> Ten members of the Canadian Chaplains Service are buried in World War 2 Commonwealth War Graves Commission grave plots overseas (three buried in France, two in Belgium, two in the Netherlands, two in Italy and one in the UK).<ref>{{cite web |title=CWGC Search Results for CCS in WW2 |url=https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead/results?regiment=Canadian%2BChaplains%2BService&war=2 |website=www.cwgc.org |publisher=CWGC |accessdate=14 March 2019}}</ref>

== Notable Members ==

* Colonel [[John Almond (Archdeacon of Montreal)|John Macpherson Almond]] {{Post-nominals|country=GB|CMG|CBE}}
* [[Frederick George Scott]] {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CMG|DSO|FRSC}}
* Lieutenant Colonel [[John Weir Foote]] {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|VC|CD}}
* Captain [[Walter Brown (chaplain)|Walter Brown]]

==Gallery==
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File:H Captain Callum Thompson, a Canadian chaplain, conducting a funeral service in the Normandy bridgehead, France, 16 July 1944.jpg|H Captain Callum Thompson, a Canadian chaplain, conducting a funeral service in the Normandy bridgehead, France, 16 July 1944
File:Canon Fred Scott (from his book).jpg|Canon Fred Scott, Senior Chaplain, First Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force 
</gallery>

==References==
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* Padres in No Man's Land (Canadian Chaplains and the Great War), by Duff Willis Crerar, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1995.

==Related units==
This unit was allied with the following:
*[[Royal Army Chaplains' Department]]

==See also==
*[[Military chaplain]]

{{Canadian Forces Personnel Branches}}

[[Category:Corps of the Canadian Army]]
[[Category:Military history of Canada]]
[[Category:Canadian military chaplains|+Canadian Royal]]
[[Category:Military units and formations of Canada in World War II]]
[[Category:Military units and formations established in 1948]]
[[Category:1948 establishments in Canada]]
[[Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1969]]
[[Category:1969 disestablishments in Canada]]


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