1. Introduction : British Army chaplaincy in context / Edward Madigan and Michael Snape -- 2. The nonconformist chaplain in the First World War : the importance of a new phenomenon / J.H. Thompson -- 3. Free church revivalism in the British Army during the First World War / Neil Allison -- 4. A Welsh perspective on army chaplaincy during the First World War : the letters of Abraham Rees Morgan MC / Ieuan Elfryn Jones -- 5. Garrisoning the nation's soul : Calvinism, Douglas Haig and Scottish Presbyterian chaplaincy on the Western Front / David Coulter -- 6. The theology of 'Woodbine Willie' in context / Stuart Bell -- 7. Chaplains in context : British Army padres and the 'bureaucracy of paternalism' in the First World War / Gary Sheffield -- 8. Catholic army chaplaincy and episcopal tensions : the Vatican and the appointment of an Episcopus Castrensis / James Hagerty -- 9. The First World War and the chaplains of British India / Michael Snape -- 10. Visions from the front : discourse on the post-war world among Anglican army chaplains in 1918 / Peter Howson -- 11. 'Shell-shocked prophets' : Anglican army chaplains and post-war reform in the Church of England / Linda Parker -- 12. The Royal Army Chaplains' Department and the legacy of the First World War / Alan Robinson