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Chaplain Major Francis Rolland MC


Padre Frank Rolland was known among the men of the 14th Battalion as the ‘Cocoa King’. Formerly a Presbyterian minister in Broome and outback South Australia, he had a powerful influence on the spirituality and intellectual development of the men.
Photo courtesy of Carl Johnson (compiler, Jacka’s Mob, 1999)

Major Arthur Cox (left) with the Reverend Major Francis Rolland in France in 1918
Photo courtesy of Carl Johnson (compiler, Jacka’s Mob, 1999)



Headmaster of Geelong College, Francis Rolland, in 1923 with college prefects
(from B.R. Keith, 'The Lives of Frank Rolland', Rigby, 1977)




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