Father Byrne gave it all away

Fr Byrne was a young man of 32 when he came to Kingstanding as the first parish priest. I remember that it was said of him that if he was given anything, money or goods by someone he met at the bottom of the hill on Warren Farm Road by the time he had walked up the hill he would have given it away to someone else who was in need. He used to visit the parishioners and then call on neighbours too. He was in Kingstanding when the air raids were on, he used to walk around the parish during the night to visit people, he came to our house the night of the raid on Coventry (14/15 November 1940), we could see the glow of the fires in the sky. In 1941, he moved from the parish to go to serve as a chaplain in the army. While he was in the parish he established the Church of Christ the King.