SALVATION ARMY
DEATH OF FOUNDER IN INDLL London, July 17. The death is announced of Commissioner Booth-Tucker, of the Salvation Army, at the age of 70. l-rederildk St. George de Latour Tucked* was born in Bengal in -1853, and on marrying in 1888 Emma Booth, second daughter of the late General Booth, took the name of Booth-Tucker. He was educated at Cheltenkaaa| College, and was in the Indian Civil Service in the Punjab from 1870 to 1881, /when he resigned to join the Salvation Army, the work which he inaugurated in India, retaining charge there until 1801. He held various high posts in the Salvation Army as Foreigu Secretary and lOonunander in America before he returned to India as a special commissioner in 1907. For his services in India lie was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind gold medal in 1913. He returned to England in 1919. He leaves three sons and three daughters by his first wife. Among his writings is “Muktifauj, or (Forty Years of the Salvation Army in India.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3973, 20 July 1929, Page 2
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169SALVATION ARMY Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3973, 20 July 1929, Page 2
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