Letters

I AM a former member of The Salvation Army, now a Catholic priest. I am trying to acquire a copy of Catherine BoothClibborn’s much-reprinted pre-war booklet Mary, The Mother Of Our Lord. I first read it many years ago and was impressed and encouraged by it. I have recently found it again. I now have a copy in French and there are many copies in English in various libraries, but I cannot find a copy for sale anywhere. Perhaps there is a reader out there who has a copy and would happily part with it? It would go to a kindly and appreciative home! In Christ,

Rev Mgr David Silk Torquay [email address supplied]

LETTERS Many years ago General Frederick Coutts said letters in the Army’s press should be ‘carefully thought out and charitably expressed’. Letters may be edited and should ideally be no more than 300 words.

Catherine Booth-Clibborn

I AM currently working on a project mapping Salvation Army data on the web. The idea is to create lots of different animated heat maps to show different characteristics of the Army around the world over a period of time, eg when The Salvation Army started in a specific country, the number of corps, officers, soldiers or schools there, etc.

The simplest map already produced is when the Army started in each country around the world, as well as who the General was at the time. To see it, scan the first QR code using a smartphone. How can you help? To map other information over time, such as the number of corps or officers, we need the statistics for each territory and year from Salvation Army yearbooks.

However, the yearbook stats are not available anywhere in digital form, and yearbooks can be hard to get hold of (the further back in time you go, the harder they are to find). So far, we have manually entered the stats from about 30 yearbooks (mostly from about 1987) but there are over 100 years to cover, so there are plenty we do not have any data for.

You can enter the data into our online spreadsheet, which is accessible by scanning the second QR code.

If you have any yearbooks for periods that are not already featured in the heat map, and can enter some data for them, that would be very helpful. (It HELP WANTED: PUTTING ARMY HISTORY ON THE MAP

takes about an hour to manually enter the data from one yearbook.) You can also visit the International Heritage Centre, which is happy to support this project and has a full collection of yearbooks.

To see a sample of what we have done with the number of corps so far (it will look better when we have fewer gaps in our data), scan the third QR code.

If you have any questions, or would like me to email you the links to the existing maps and spreadsheet, please contact me at email address supplied. Thanks for your help.

David Philpot Brisbane

APPOINTED Effective 31 October 2019 O Major Neil Woollacott, Chester Effective 1 January O Captain Joanna Baker, additional appointment, Area Candidates Officer, Central South Effective 2 January O Major Nigel Byrne, additional appointment, Teignmouth Effective 6 January O Major Stewart Grinsted, Southwark Effective 5 March O Major Lynn Farmer, Chaplain, Greenock Floating Support Service and Glasgow Housing First Effective 15 March O Captain Ben Cotterill, Project Officer, Pakistan Territory O Captain Rebecka Cotterill, Enterprise Development Officer, Pakistan Territory

MARRIAGE O Chizuruoke Anyim to Chidinma Anaso at Northampton by Major Janice Snell WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Golden O Majors Betty and Melvyn Ackroyd (24 January)

BEREAVED O Avis Elliot, Douglas, of her husband Bandsman Ken Elliot, David Elliot, Cannock, Liz Dixon, Douglas, and John Elliot of their father O Major Karl Gray, Clapton, of his mother Barbara O Michael Boughton, Tadcaster, of his wife Gladys O Territorial Envoy Lynette Skutt, Liverpool Community Chaplain, of her father Alfred Skutt O Major Lindsey Toy, Westonsuper-Mare, of her mother Mary Blackman-Hall O Major Elwyn Harries, THQ, and Glyn Harries of their mother Sheila O Paul Perryman, Belfast Sydenham, Elizabeth Perryman, and Sharon Rix, of their father Major William Perryman O Marijane Gwata, Leeds Central, of

ENGAGEMENTS

GENERAL BRIAN PEDDLE AND COMMISSIONER ROSALIE PEDDLE O India Northern Territory, Mon 20 Jan – Sun 26 O India Western Territory, Mon 27 – Mon 3 Feb

THE CHIEF OF THE STAFF (COMMISSIONER LYNDON BUCKINGHAM) AND COMMISSIONER BRONWYN BUCKINGHAM O ICO (welcome to session), Th 16 Jan O ICO (lecture), Tu 21 O Korea Territory (installation of territorial leaders), Th 6 Feb – Sun 9

THE TERRITORIAL COMMANDER (COMMISSIONER ANTHONY COTTERILL) AND COMMISSIONER GILLIAN COTTERILL O Clydebank (retirement of Commissioners Carol and Ivor Telfer), Sat 11 Jan O ICO (welcome to session), Th 16 O Dublin City (opening of new building), Sat 18 O Dublin South, Sun 19 O Territorial envoys annual seminar, Wed 22 O Clitheroe, Sat 25 O Anglia Division, Th Fr 31 O WBC (public welcome to the principal), Sun 2 Feb O WBC (first year cadets teaching module), Tu 4* O Aberdeen (Scotland Council), Th 6 O Basingstoke, Sat 8

THE CHIEF SECRETARY (COLONEL LEE GRAVES) AND COLONEL DEBORAH GRAVES O West Midlands (officers spiritual day), Th 16 Jan O Regent Hall (ISS 40th anniversary launch), Sat 18 O Swanwick (prayer gathering weekend), Fri 24 – Sun 26

INTERNATIONAL STAFF BAND O Regent Hall (ISS 40th anniversary launch), Sat 18 Jan O Hendon, Sun 19

INTERNATIONAL STAFF SONGSTERS O Regent Hall (ISS 40th anniversary launch), Sat 18 Jan O Regent Hall, Sun 19 O Sunderland Millfield, Sat Sun 9 Feb

her father Moses Chisava O Muriel Ottaway, Leeds Central, of her husband John, Robert Ottaway, Jill Smith, Richard Ottaway and Deborah Bedford, all Leeds Central, of their father, Alan Ottaway and Lilian Worth, both Macclesfield, of their brother O Commissioner Margaret Taylor of her sister Jean Waller

PROMOTED TO GLORY O Rtd SL Pat Collings, Exeter Temple O Major William Perryman from his home on 21 December

WHAT’S ON

LET THERE BE PRAISE O Reading Central Band on 15 January from 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm on kitchener.faithfm.org Previous broadcasts are available on citadelpromotions.co.uk, salvoaudio.com and salvos.com/ tomquick

TRIBUTES

RALPH HARVEY, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD WITH Salvationist parents, Ralph was involved in the former L’Islet Fortress Corps in Guernsey. Work took him to Hemel Hempstead, where he met and married Christine Carr. They had two children, Stephen and Katie, but Christine sadly died while they were in their teens.

Ralph returned to the Army, where he served as a bandsman and helped in the coffee lounge. He also sold the War Cry in the town centre, where he loved meeting people.

He was a larger-than-life character, who supported Great Ormond Street Hospital and various local events as the ‘official’ Santa.

Ralph’s last days were at the Hospice of St Francis, where his beloved wife died 25 years earlier. When the band visited the hospice, his wry humour was still evident. Ralph’s final song request was ‘It Is Well With My Soul’. – L. R.

AUDREY WILLIAMS, WREXHAM BORN in 1924 Audrey grew up in Liverpool. During the Second World War she moved to the countryside and found a new church in The Salvation Army at Cefn Mawr in Wales.

There she met and married Les Williams and they shared more than 70 years together. Audrey was a dedicated homemaker who enjoyed family life with her children, Barbara and Eric, and her grandchildren.

Audrey was a talented pianist and accompanied the songsters for many years. After she retired, she regularly helped with reading lessons at a

nearby infants’ school.

She was a quiet lady with a deep faith and rich Bible knowledge, and a keen visitor who would always lend a listening ear. Never one to complain, Audrey fully trusted in her Lord, with the assurance that one day ‘all will be well’. – E. W.

OLWEN MAY NORMAN, WATCHET A TRUE and loyal soldier at the corps for many years, May was No 1 on the roll, a Sunday school teacher, songster and bandswoman. She always put others first and is missed by her family and corps folk. – S. S.

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