The Life and Death of the Founder of The Salvation Army (William Booth)

This presentation originates from one of three sets of slides. They were gifts, together with a lantern slide projector and script, from General Bramwell Booth to Lt Colonel B J Siebrits, a South African officer who served at The Salvation Army’s International Headquarters as auditor.
 
The Colonel passed these to his son, Bandmaster B J (Jack) Siebrits of Cape Town. The original projector was used for showing the slides in the Cape Town City Hall in the 1950s. In spite of the size of the building the antique equipment performed admirably. However, eventually the projector globe could not be replaced. Ever-resourceful, Jack Siebrits fitted a lamp from a modern projector and continued using it to good effect.
 
In due course the collection of slides and projector passed to the bandmaster’s daughters, Myra and Margaret, Sercombe and du Plessis respectively. Major Howard Sercombe scanned these and readily granted permission for them to be posted on ‘thedups.com’. Even though there are probably better images of some scenes elsewhere, the purpose was to make this particular collection accessible to others. 

For further information on William and Catherine Booth and The Salvation Army please go to:
The Salvation Army International Heritage Centre

The life & death of the Founder of The Salvation Army. The originals are glass slides (8cm square) designed for use in a huge (by today’s standards) projector. These formed a lecture, complete with type-written script. Although these scanned copies are in Powerpoint, the main purpose of the exercise is to make a readily available reference for this collection, rather than for use as a presentation.Nottintone Place. Nottingham. Birth place of Wm Booth on 10th April 1829.Wm Booth’s Mother.School room where Booth was converted, 1845.Soon after this (in 1846), Booth begins to preach, in a lane in Nottingham.A Salvation Army open-air meeting on the same spot. The photograph was taken in 1927.Catherine Mumford in 1852, when she and William first met.Mrs Mumford, Catherine’s mother.Rev. Caughey, from the USA,. a great influence for good upon WB.“The Crisis” – “No Never”. WB “goes into the wilderness”, 1861.“Mile End Waste” as it is today. Public gardens now cover the spot where WB began London open-air work.Rev & Mrs Booth in Christian Mission times.The Old Bird Shop – one of the earliest Christian Mission Stations.The Christian Mission extends to the provinces. A meeting in The Dome, the largest building in Brighton.Whitechapel Hall.Mrs Booth speaking, in Portsmouth Music Hall.The Booth home. at Clapton Common.This is the first published copy of ‘The War Cry’The General when the first ‘War Cry’ was published.Mrs General Booth, now became known as the Army Mother.First headquarters at Whitechapel, later the HQ for Men’s Social Work.Sheffield Riots.Army extends to Europe. France is opened. Mrs Booth and her daughter in a Paris meeting.The Army Mother speaking at the first “Two days with God” in the Manchester ‘Free Trade Hall’.Mrs Booth’s last appearance in public. In City Temple, London.The last photo taken of Mrs Booth.Mrs Booth in bed in her last illness.Her last message to the Army.WB keeps watch. at her bedside.The Commissioners of the Army kneel in. prayer around the dying Army Mother.The vacant chair in the Founder’s home.The General, set free by Mrs Booth’s death,. decides to visit his now almost world-wide Army.Traveling in northern Europe among the snows,. Commissioner Mapp, and Commissioner Ogrim with him.The General about to set off on one of his world-wide trips.In the Holy land, at the tomb of Lazarus, Bethany.Bethlehem.Top of Calvary.At the Dome of the Rock.Viewing Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives.Leaving Solomon’s Tomb.At the Mount of Olives.At Tomb of the Kings.General’s reception at Yokohama, Japan.At King William’s Town, South Africa.Opening the US Senate with prayer.With his daughter, Consul Emma Booth-Tucker in the USA.Speaking from the end of a railway carriage in Canada.Returning home from a tour.Welcome home, at the Crystal Palace.Freedom of the City of London.In the robes of. Doctor of Civil Law, Oxford.Three generations of Booth. Founder, Bramwell, and Bernard.Outside Congress Hall at start of the last motor tour.A wayside halt.His interest in children.Meeting with women prisoners.Founder as author and poet.Founder on his last continental journey, with Colonel Theodore Kitching, and Commissioner McAlonan.WBs last meeting. The Royal Albert Hall.WB arrives at Royal Albert Hall, led by Commissioner Lawley. May 9th 1912.Artist’s impression of WB’s final public meeting.Just before the second. eye operation.The room at home in which WB worked.WB’s youngest daughter, at home with him during his last illness.WB and his daughter Evangeline.WB’s dog Gyp.WB’s house, Rookstone, Hadley Wood. The room in which WB lay is marked with a cross.The war-worn warrior’s last sleep.Telegram being delivered to Rookstone, from King George.Special editions of newspapers. The Daily Mirror sold a million copies.The General’s death announced outside Headquaters, Tokyo.The body lay in state in the Congress Hall,. located at the end of this road.The Coffin at Clapton Congress Hall.The coffin plate.Crowds entering Clapton – 100,000 over 4 days and nights.Women cadets view the body early morning before. the crowds arrive.From a drawing, “All sorts and conditions of men” view the body.Wreath from the Kaiser, William II of Germany.Wreath from King George and Queen Mary.The funeral service at Olympia. The building held 32,000 people.The procession entering the Hall, preceded by the flags of the nations.Olympia interior, the coffin lying in front.Bringing the coffin from IHQ.The coffin placed in position.The troops salute their General’s coffin.General and Mrs Bramwell Booth,. behind the coffin ….… walking the whole way….… preceded by the International Staff Band.The crowd in the heart of the City of London.The Hearse passing Mansion House, the vast crowd stretching up Cheapside.Crowd in the East End.Abney Park cemetery, crowds stretching as far as the eye can see.Hearse entering cemetery gates.View of the platform around the grave.Carrying the coffin to the platform over the grave.The coffin in position.Bramwell Booth. speaks.The tombstone.General Bramwell Booth.Mrs General Florence Booth.
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“The life & death of the Founder of The Salvation Army”. This collection is one of three boxes of slides, and is covered by the above title. The slides in this first box have all been scanned, even though there are (probably) better images of some scenes elsewhere: the purpose of this exercise was to make an accessible copy of this particular collection. Three boxes of slides, projector and script were given by General Bramwell Booth to Colonel BJ Siebrits, a South African officer who served at International Headquarters as Auditor. The Colonel passed these to his son, Bandmaster BJ Siebrits of Cape Town. The projector was used, and the slides shown in the Cape Town City Hall. This is a huge building, but this antique equipment filled it admirably. However, the projector globe became irreplaceable, so ancient was it. The projector was fitted temporarily with a lamp from a modern projector and used in this way. In due course the collection of slides and projector passed to the Bandmaster’s daughters, Myra and Margaret, Sercombe and du Plessis respectively. At time of scanning the first box of slides, 25 are missing, some through breakage, but others are possibly out of order, and “lost” in one of the other two boxes. Where a slide is missing, this fact is noted on the slide previous to the missing one. That a slide is missing can be seen from following the original script. These notes are based upon the original type-written script, with some additions and/or expansion. December 2003 Howard Sercombe