William Booth
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William Booth was an English Methodist preacher who, along with his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army and became its first General. This Christian movement, founded in 1865, has a quasi-mili
Booth in 1912
William Booth c. 1862
Manifesto of The Christian Mission as a "Volunteer Army" (1878)
The Christian Mission becomes The Salvation Army (May 1878).
Bramwell Booth
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William Bramwell Booth, CH was a British church and charity leader who was the first Chief of Staff and the second General of The Salvation Army, succeeding his father, William Booth.
William Booth
…developed from an incident in May 1878. William Booth was dictating a letter to his secretary George Scott Railton and said, "We are a volunteer army." Bramwell Booth heard his father and said, "Volunteer, I'm no volunteer, I'm a regular!" Railton was instructed to cross out the word "volunteer" and substitute the…
Booth in about 1910
Grave of Bramwell Booth at Abney Park Cemetery