This is a photograph of Father Lynch "with friends" from the boys school in Wuzhou. Father Lynch is seated behind the desk and the children gather all around him. Some sit on the desk. Father Lynch appears to be reading to them. Born in Massachusetts, Fr. Lynch came to Maryknoll in 1928 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1938. He was assigned to the Wuchow mission in China. He spent six years in Wuchow and in 1945 he was awarded the Emblem for Meritorious Civilian Service for his work as a Contract Chaplain in China. After the war he returned to Tanchuk, Kwangsi and in 1951 the mission was closed. He was held a prisoner for one day and later expelled from China. He then began work in Taiwan where he spent the rest of his life
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