GeoffreyStuddertKennedy.FuneralProc.500 Published March 8, 2010 at 538 × 348 in Evening Prayer 3.8.10, Feast of ‘Woodbine Willie,’ G.A. Studdert Kennedy, 1929 Britons lined the streets in 1929 for Studdert Kennedy’s funeral. He served heroically as a field chaplain in World War I and wrote poetry in a simple soldier’s voice, struggling to understand God in the midst of mass suffering. See video below.