WW1 Service:

Service Number: Chaplain

Enlisted: 17 March 1915, Melbourne, Victoria

Last Rank: Captain (Chaplain 4th Class)

Last Unit: Australian Army Chaplains' Department

Born: Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, 1 March 1865

Home Town: Malvern East, Stonnington, Victoria

Schooling: Grammar School, Glasgow, Scotland

Occupation: Methodist Clergyman

Died: Natural causes, Blackburn, Victoria, Australia, 25 December 1936, aged 71 years

Cemetery: Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton

Memorials: Melbourne Chaplains on Active Service Stained Glass Window, Melbourne Methodist Church Memorial Window

Marriage 1: The Argus 7 Sep 1895

BLADEN-CHAMBERS.-On the 7th ult., at Wesley Church, Melbourne, by the Rev. E. I. Watkin, D.D., assisted by the Revs. T. Grove and A. B. Edgar, Rev. Albert Percy, fifth son of the late Charles Bladen, of Glasgow, Scotland, to Florence, youngest daughter of the late George Chambers, of Melbourne.

MARRIAGE # 2

The Argus 7 Mar 1936

BLADEN-GARNHAM.-On the 29th January 1936, at Denham street Methodist Church, Haw,i thorn, by the Rev. H. J. Ham, M.A., assisted by i the Rev. Prof. A. E. Alblston, M.A., B.D.. Rev. Albert Percy Bladen, O.B.E., of Hawthorn, to I Edith May, third daughter of Mrs. Garnham and the late Mr. H. G. Garnham, of Mont Albert.

OBITUARY

The Age 26 Dec 1936

OBITUARY.

REV. A. P. BLADEN.

Rev. Albert Percy Bluden, O.B.E., V.D., died suddenly yesterday morning at his home at Blackburn. Mr. Bladen retired from the active ministry of the Methodist Church this year, after forty-five years of service, during which he gained universal affection and esteem. He was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, on 1st March, 1865, and went to New Zealand at the age of 19, and became a local preacher. He arrived in Victoria in 1889, and served for a year as a home missionary in the Dandenong circuit. In 1890 he was accepted as a candidate for the ministry, and subsequently he was stationed in the following circuits:- Alexandra, Natimuk, Williamstown, Warragul, Pyramid Hill, Ararat, New Town (Tas.), Launceston (Tas.), Maryborough, Malvern, St. Kilda, Canterbury, Brighton and Hawthorn. In the Great War he served with distinction as a chaplain on active service in the A.l.F. He was padre to 23rd Battalion, A.I.F., and received the decoration Order of the British Empire. In 1904 he was appointed senior chaplain for Victoria, and recently Chaplain-General of the Commonwealth. In 1920 Mr. Bladen was appointed secretary of the Methodist Conference, and in 1921 he was elected president of the Victorian and Tasmanian Conference. He was a past master of Boroondara Masonic Lodge, and a past grand chaplain of the Victorian and Tasmanian grand lodges. At the Denham-street Methodist Church, Hawthorn, this morning, a memorial service will be held, at which the president of the conference will preside, and the cortege will arrive at the Melbourne Cemetery, Carlton, at 11 a.m. The arrange ments arc in the hands of LePine and Sons Pty Ltd