DEATH OF GENERAL BOOTH

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3958, 20 June 1929, Page 3

DEATH OF GENERAL BOOTH

London, June 17. General Bramwell Booth died at Hadley Wood. All the family, except. his daughter, Commissioner Mary Booth, were at the bedside. No evidence of a relapse being imiminent was apparent until the doctor, on visiting him on Sunday morning, found that the patient had taken a sudden turn for the worse. The General remained unconscious ali day. He rallied and spoke to ins wife, his daughters Dora and Olive, and two sons, and then lapsed again into unconsciousness.

KING AND CHURCH PAY TRIBUTE. London, June 17. General Bramwell Booth’s body lies in state at the Congress Hall, Clapton, on Friday and Saturday. General Higgins and the International Commissioners will conduct the funeral service at the Albert Hall on Sunday. The coffin will be taken to Army headquarters, Queen Victoria street, on Monday and the procession starts thence for Abney Park cemetery, where the body is to he interred beside those of his parents. As the procession traverses some of the most congested city streets, if may necessarily be curtailed, the principal gatherings of mourner's assembling at the cemetery. The coffin will be covered with the Army bag, with the General’s cap lying thereon. The widow and family request that no llowea’s be sent, as it is an Army tradition. The King sent a message to the widow, expressing his Majesty’s deep regret and offering sympathy. “With his father, he will always be gratefully remembered as the promoter of the widespread beneficent activities of the Salvation A itoy.” The Primate, (Dr. Lang) in addressing' the Church Assembly, asked it. to pay a tribute of respect to the honoured leader of the Army’s social work. General Booth succeeded to the leadership of the Salvation Army in 1912, following his father, the late General William Booth, the founder of the organisation. General Bramwell Booth’s life was a strenuous one. The General and his wife visited many parts of the world, i»chiding- New Zealand, inspecting the numerous branches of the Army. General Booth was accorded an audience by the King in June, 1914, and when the Great War broke out the Salvation Army took a very prominent part in relief works of various kinds, which included valuable assistance to the men actually in the front line trenches. In 18S2 the General was married to Miss Florence Soper, a daughter of the late Dr. Soper, and Mrs. Booth did much to help her husband in his wmk, especially on the evangelistic side of Army endeavour.