A new era of support

Posted on July 29, 2025 
Filed under Anglican Church of Australia, People

“More than a century after Anglican chaplains first went on to the battlefield with soldiers, chaplaincy has been established to veterans of Australia’s Defence Force.

The historic move was marked at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney with the collation of the inaugural Archdeacon to Veterans, the Ven Andrew Nixon. …”

– Russell Powell has this report at SydneyAnglicans.net.

Photo: Former Governor General David Hurley, Mrs Jenny Nixon, Mrs Linda Hurley, Archdeacon Nixon.